Figure 2.

Adjusted content map of food parenting practices from Vaughn et al. [10]. The figure explains a conceptual map that hypothesizes mechanisms in which (1) family characteristics, (2) parent characteristics, and child characteristics relate to three higher-order categories of food parenting practices (Coercive Control, Structure, and Autonomy Support or Promotion) influencing child weight status. Food parenting practices directly relate to child weight status (dashed arrows) or indirectly through child behaviors such as dietary intake or eating behaviors. In this conceptual map, feeding styles indirectly relate to child weight status (dashed circle and dashed arrow) through food parenting practices or child behaviors. The map acknowledges how parents and family characteristics relate directly and indirectly to child weight status, and how child weight status, child behaviors, and child characteristics relate to the food parenting practices.