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Purpose: The research aims to examine the relationship between the eating behaviours of 5-6 years old children and the parents’ child care levels with the data obtained from the parents of 5-6 years old preschool children.
Method and Materials: The sample of the study consists of mothers and fathers of 357 children in the 5-6 age group who attend private / public preschool education institutions affiliated to the Ministry of National Education in Istanbul in 2017-2018 academic year. In the research, relational screening method was used. The “Personal Information Form” prepared by the researcher in order to find, children and parents’ demographic characteristics, and “Children Eating Behaviour Evaluation Scale” prepared by Lynda A. et al. (1990) and translated by Ünlü (2011) in order to find children eating behaviour used in the research. “Mother-Father Child Care Scale” created by Sucuoğlu, Özkal, Yıldız-Demirtaş and Güzeller (2015) was used in the research in order to determine mother-father child care scale. Results: Similarly, there are significant differences in mother-father child care with child age, type of educational institution, age of the father, parents’ education level, the mother’s employment status, the birth order of child in the family and the marital status of parent. It is observed that there is a “low” correlation between the Child Eating Behavior Evaluation Scale and the Mother-Father Child Care Scale. Between the Child Eating Behavior Evaluation Scale and the Mother-Father Child Care Scale for the father; it is observed that there is a positive “low” level correlation in child sub-dimension school interest with mother’s sub-dimension opinion about child’s eating behavior.
Pre-school Child, Child Eating Behaviour, Mother-Father Child Care