Intragenerational influences in food consumption: The role of siblings

Kafia Ayadi, Pascale Ezan () and Joël Bree ()
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Kafia Ayadi: Pôle Jeunes et Pratique Responsable - Rouen Business School - Rouen Business School
Pascale Ezan: Pôle Jeunes et Pratique Responsable - Rouen Business School - Rouen Business School
Joël Bree: NIMEC - Normandie Innovation Marché Entreprise Consommation - UNICAEN - Université de Caen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - ULH - Université Le Havre Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - UNIROUEN - Université de Rouen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - IRIHS - Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire Homme et Société - UNIROUEN - Université de Rouen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université, Pôle Jeunes et Pratique Responsable - Rouen Business School - Rouen Business School

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Abstract: The purpose of this paper is the study of family dynamics regarding food and eating: our objective is to understand how food consumption functions within the family and more specifically between siblings. We lead an ethnography study within family homes. Firstly results indicate similarity between food preferences of parents and children for certain product. However, children tend to have a distinctive food intake of that of their parents for other kinds of products. Second, our results show a bigger influence from elder siblings than parents in food consumption of the youngest. Third, we found that within the family the influence of food consumption is not only unidirectional from parents to children and from older children to youngest one. But the influence is also reciprocal: from children to parents and from the youngest to the older. The paper concludes that a better understanding of food consumption between family member can helps to be more effective in addressing related health problems like obesity. As food consumption is related to inter and intra-generational influences, these interactions have to be incorporated in public and private actions oriented to reduce children obesity prevalence.

Date: 2006-06-08
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Published in Children and Teen Consumption, Sweden, June., Jun 2006, Norköpping, Sweden

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