유아 비만과 관련된 유아특성과 어머니의 식생활관리 및 양육행동

Personal Characteristics & Mother's Meal Management and Parenting Behavior Related to Children's Obesity

The purpose of this research was to investigate the personal characteristics and environmental factors related to children's obesity. Subjects of this study were composed of 3-5-year-old children of 7 kindergartens located in Cheongju and Cheongwon. The weight types of children had been classified into normal, over-weight, and obesity groups under WLI value. Data were analyzed by SPSSWIN with the method of frequency, percentage, t-test, F-test and Duncan post-hoc test. The results of this study were as follows: 1. Weight types of children were related to children's eating behaviors such as surfeit(overeating), gluttony, light eating and eating speed. That is to say, overweight and obesity group children ate more and they were more gluttonous than normal weight group of children. Normal weight group ate little compared with overweight and obesity group. Children of obesity group ate faster than children of normal and overweight group. 2. Children's eating behaviors were associated with their psychological characteristics such as sociality and activity. Children of obesity group were lack of sociality and activity compared with normal weight and overweight group. 3. Mother's control of children's eating habits was found to be related to the recognition of children figure and advice of reducing weight. Mothers considered Donna! weight children as thin and overweight and also evaluated obesity as normal or fat. Also they frequently urged overweight or obesity group to reduce weight. 4. There were statistically significant differences in mothers' parenting behavior according to the weight types. Normal weight children got more mothers' support parenting behavior than did overweight and obesity children. This research suggest that obesity group of children is not much different from children of overweight group.