A B S T R A C T
The purpose of the present study was to examine relationships between child eating self-regulation, child
non-eating self-regulation, and child BMIz in a low-income sample of Hispanic families with preschoolers.
The eating in the absence of hunger task as well as parent-report of child satiety responsiveness and
food responsiveness were used to assess child eating self-regulation. Two laboratory tasks assessing executive
functioning, a parent questionnaire assessing child effortful control (a temperament dimension
related to executive functioning), and the delay of gratification and gift delay tasks assessing child emotion
regulation were used to assess child non-eating self-regulation. Bivariate correlations were run among
all variables in the study. Hierarchical linear regression analyses assessed