This research examines the effects of COVID-19 perceptions and negative experiences during the pandemic time on parental healthy eating behavior and whether these relationships interact with a parent’s gender. We ran a survey of parents who had at least one child aged 3 to 17 years old living in the United Kingdom. We received 384 valid responses, which were analysed via a variance-based structural equation modeling approach to test our hypotheses. The results revealed that COVID-19 perceptions effects were Janus-faced. While they indirectly and negatively impact healthy eating behavior mediated by triggering negative experiences during the pandemic, COVID-19 perceptions, however, directly get parents, especially fathers, more engaged into healthy eating behavior – making COVID-19 perceptions total effects positive on healthy eating behavior. This explorative model is novel in the sense that it is the first of its kind to cast light on how parental healthy eating behavior can be shaped in pandemic time. The research is particularly timely due to the uncertain times in which the research is situated, that is, the worldwide pandemic (also termed COVID-19); the paper highlights how family eating practices can undergo dramatic shifts during acute crises.

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COVID-19 观念对家庭健康饮食行为的两面性影响：父母作为调解人的负面经历和性别作为调解人

这项研究探讨了大流行期间 COVID-19 的看法和负面经历对父母健康饮食行为的影响，以及这些关系是否与父母的性别相互作用。我们对在英国至少有一个 3 至 17 岁孩子的父母进行了一项调查。我们收到了 384 份有效回复，这些回复通过基于方差的结构方程建模方法进行分析，以检验我们的假设。结果显示，COVID-19 感知效应是 Janus 面临的。虽然它们通过在大流行期间引发负面经历而间接和负面地影响健康饮食行为，但 COVID-19 认知直接让父母，尤其是父亲更多地参与到健康饮食行为中——使 COVID-19 认知对健康饮食产生积极影响行为。这种探索性模型是新颖的，因为它是同类中第一个阐明如何在大流行时期塑造父母健康饮食行为的模型。由于研究所处的不确定时期，即全球大流行（也称为 COVID-19），该研究特别及时；该论文强调了家庭饮食习惯如何在严重危机期间发生巨大变化。