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Food preferences were obtained directly from 128 preschool children and their parents,
using four different sets of foods: fruits, vegetables, sandwiches, and snacks. When
the rank orders of preferences given by the children were correlated with those of
their parents, only 10% of the mother-child and 6% of the father-child correlations
were significant at the p < 0.05 level. In comparison, when children's preferences
were correlated with those of unrelated adults, 8% of the obtained values were significant.
These results indicate that if several methodological problems are eliminated which
have frequently been present in studies on the relationship between parental preferences
and those of their children, parental preferences are no more strongly related to
their children's preferences than are the preferences of unrelated adults of the same
subcultural group. The majority of the correlations for mother-child pairs, father-child
pairs, and unrelated adult-child pairs were positive; and the three distributions
of correlations were very similar. These results suggest that a commonality of food
preference may exist within a subcultural group and that the commonality is reflected
in the low positive correlations consistently noted between children's preferences
and those of their parents.
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