Abstract
Parents of children of varying relative weight were administered a structured interview on the children's eating behaviors, dispositions, and other factors hypothesized to be related to overweight. A wide range of factors was found to be strongly correlated with the children's weight status; these factors were markedly differentiated according to the sex of the chilren. Overweight in boys was associated with less exercise, less emotionality, less social involvement, greater compliance, and pronounced food preferences. Overweight in girls was associated with greater influence of positive and negative moods on eating, more parental restraint of eating behavior, more emotionality, and greater peer rejection. The results highlight the importance of understanding parental views of children's weight problems in explaining the development of sex differences in obesity.
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