Figure 2.

The direct and indirect pathways in parental facilitation of child intuitive eating. After analysis of the 15 retained studies, correlations between parental IE and child IE were extracted and variables mediating child IE were identified (gray boxes). The described variables were found to have a positive (green line) or negative (red line) association with a child’s tendency to exhibit IE behaviors. Some correlations only pertain to male or female children and are designated as such. The correlation between pressuring a female child to eat and said child’s total IE was conflicting in the literature; consequently, it is denoted with a black line. IE = intuitive eating; UPE = unconditional permission to eat; EPR = eating for physical rather than emotional reasons; RHSC = reliance on hunger and satiety cues; B-FCC = body-food choice congruence.