The mediating and moderating role of planning on mothers’ decisions for early childhood dietary behaviours
Objective: Examine the roles of action and coping planning on the intention–behaviour relationship for mothers’ decisions for their young children’s dietary behaviours. Design: Prospective design with two waves of data collection, one week apart. Main outcome measures: Mothers (N = 197, M age = 34....
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| author | Hamilton, Kyra Kothe, E. Mullan, Barbara Spinks, T. |
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| description | Objective: Examine the roles of action and coping planning on the intention–behaviour relationship for mothers’ decisions for their young children’s dietary behaviours. Design: Prospective design with two waves of data collection, one week apart. Main outcome measures: Mothers (N = 197, M age = 34.39, SD = 5.65) of children aged 2–3 years completed a main questionnaire assessing planning constructs and intentions, and a one-week follow-up of the target behaviours – ‘healthy eating’ and ‘discretionary choices’. Results: Intention was the strongest predictor of behaviour for both dietary behaviours. For healthy eating, intention moderated the indirect relationship between intention–behaviour via planning; coping planning was less important when intention was strong. Further, intention was not a direct predictor of behaviour when intention was relatively low. Action planning was not a direct predictor of either behaviour after accounting for intention and coping planning; action planning on behaviour was mediated by coping planning (only for healthy eating). Intention was not a direct predictor of coping planning; intention on coping planning was mediated by action planning. Neither type of planning predicted discretionary choices. Conclusion: Current findings contribute novel information on the mechanisms underpinning the effect of action and coping planning on the intention–behaviour relationship. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-556642018-07-20T00:17:45Z The mediating and moderating role of planning on mothers’ decisions for early childhood dietary behaviours Hamilton, Kyra Kothe, E. Mullan, Barbara Spinks, T. Objective: Examine the roles of action and coping planning on the intention–behaviour relationship for mothers’ decisions for their young children’s dietary behaviours. Design: Prospective design with two waves of data collection, one week apart. Main outcome measures: Mothers (N = 197, M age = 34.39, SD = 5.65) of children aged 2–3 years completed a main questionnaire assessing planning constructs and intentions, and a one-week follow-up of the target behaviours – ‘healthy eating’ and ‘discretionary choices’. Results: Intention was the strongest predictor of behaviour for both dietary behaviours. For healthy eating, intention moderated the indirect relationship between intention–behaviour via planning; coping planning was less important when intention was strong. Further, intention was not a direct predictor of behaviour when intention was relatively low. Action planning was not a direct predictor of either behaviour after accounting for intention and coping planning; action planning on behaviour was mediated by coping planning (only for healthy eating). Intention was not a direct predictor of coping planning; intention on coping planning was mediated by action planning. Neither type of planning predicted discretionary choices. Conclusion: Current findings contribute novel information on the mechanisms underpinning the effect of action and coping planning on the intention–behaviour relationship. 2017 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/55664 10.1080/08870446.2017.1351970 Routledge fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Hamilton, Kyra Kothe, E. Mullan, Barbara Spinks, T. The mediating and moderating role of planning on mothers’ decisions for early childhood dietary behaviours |
| title | The mediating and moderating role of planning on mothers’ decisions for early childhood dietary behaviours |
| title_full | The mediating and moderating role of planning on mothers’ decisions for early childhood dietary behaviours |
| title_fullStr | The mediating and moderating role of planning on mothers’ decisions for early childhood dietary behaviours |
| title_full_unstemmed | The mediating and moderating role of planning on mothers’ decisions for early childhood dietary behaviours |
| title_short | The mediating and moderating role of planning on mothers’ decisions for early childhood dietary behaviours |
| title_sort | mediating and moderating role of planning on mothers’ decisions for early childhood dietary behaviours |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/55664 |