The research showed that the explicative power of parental attachment in children was much stronger than that of youth attachment in adults (18% vs 6%). This pattern of results is expected, as parental attachment plays a much more direct and essential role in children.

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Children with higher insecure attachment consumed higher daily amounts of HCFs compared with less insecurely attached children.

Attachment insecurity significantly predicted HCF consumption in children.

Adults who rated their youth parental attachment patterns as more insecure consumed more HCFs than adults who evaluated their youth parental attachment as being less insecure.      

Attachment insecurity predicted HCF consumption in adults.

Faber, A., & Dubé, L. (2015). Parental attachment insecurity predicts child and adult high-caloric food consumption. Journal of Health Psychology, 20(5), 511-524.

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