文章大意：本文是一篇说明文。文章介绍了调查父母喂养方法对青少年情绪化饮食行为影响的研究，该研究发现，当父母使用食物作为奖励或限制监控食物获取时，青少年更可能采用情绪化进食来应对情绪。相反，让孩子参与准备饭菜则有助于提高情绪调节能力并减少情绪化进食。此外，父母控制自己饮食的程度与青少年情绪化进食呈负相关。
5 . While it is known that parents control the dietary choices of their children during early childhood, the increasing independence experienced during adolescence brings with it more freedom when it comes to food choices. This time of life also brings enormous physical and emotional changes in a young person, which is often associated with an increase in comfort eating, or eating as a means to relieve stress. A recent study investigates how various feeding practices used by parents impact the emotional eating behavior of adolescents.
The initial study was conducted in 2017 with 218 families. Additionally, data collected in 2013 were also available. One parent from each family completed the Child Feeding Questionnaire, as well as the Child Feeding Practices Questionnaire, and both adolescent and parent completed the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire. The adolescent’s body weight and height were measured by researchers. The four years between 2013 — 2017 covered the years from late childhood to mid-teens.
The study found that when parents used food as a reward, or restricted and monitored an adolescent’s access to food, this was associated with an increased tendency by the adolescent to use emotional eating as a strategy to deal with their emotions. On the other hand, involving a child in meal preparations had the opposite effect — it was associated with higher levels of emotional regulation and lower levels of emotional eating in the adolescent participants.
Additionally, the researchers found a negative link between the extent to which parents restrained (克制) their own eating behavior and the use of emotional eating by their adolescent children. This means that the more a parent limited his or her own consumption of food for the purpose of health or dietary goals, the less the adolescent child used emotional eating as a means of regulating his or her own emotions.
According to study lead author Joanna Klosowska, restrictive parenting was most damaging, whereas restrained eating by the parent seemed to be the most beneficial. “Additional research is required to understand the way in which restrained eating demonstrated by a parent impacts the emotional eating of a child,” said Klosowska.
1. What does the underlined word “it” in paragraph 1 refer to?
| A．Parents’ dietary choice. | B．Parents’ eating behavior. |
| C．Children’s way of relieving stress. | D．Children’s increasing independence. |
2. What did the researchers do in the study?
| A．They studied parents’ body weight and height. |
| B．They investigated children’s eating behaviors. |
| C．They interviewed parents about their emotional health. |
| D．They assessed parents’ understanding of children’s care needs. |
3. What did the study find?
| A．Restrained eating by parents is bad for their children. |
| B．Emotional eating by teens is influenced by their parents. |
| C．Parents seldom engage their children in family meal preparations. |
| D．Using food as a reward can help children form good eating habits. |
4. What will future research focus on according to Klosowska?
| A．Factors resulting in parents’ and adolescents’ food choices. |
| B．The underlying logic behind parents’ restrictive parenting. |
| C．What effect emotional eating can generate on children’s health. |
| D．How parents’ restrained eating influences children’s emotional eating. |
