Figure 2.

Conceptual model of food parenting practices highlighting current hypotheses in the literature. The figure is labeled with A, B, C, and D to facilitate grouping of these hypotheses. (A) hypotheses around the influence of family characteristics on food parenting practices, child diet, and child weight; (B) hypotheses around the influence of parent characteristics on food parenting practices, child diet, and child weight; (C) hypotheses around the influence of child characteristics on food parenting practices, child diet, and child weight; and (D) hypotheses around the bidirectional relationships between food parenting practices, child diet, and child weight.