Claire Farrow BSc PhD
Senior Lecturer
Contact details
Room: GG.0.11
Phone: +44 (0)1509 228487
Fax: +44 (0)1509 223940
Email: C.V.Farrow@lboro.ac.uk
Background
Dr Claire Farrow is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University. Claire is interested in the factors that influence eating behaviour and weight gain or weight loss, particularly in children. She has overseen and conducted several longitudinal studies concerned with the development of eating behaviours in early life. She is involved in research about parental influences on child food preferences and weight; how siblings influence each other’s eating; parental perceptions of child weight and weight monitoring feedback; and the experiences of discrimination for individuals who are overweight. Claire is a Chartered Psychologist and an invited committee member of the National Steering Group for Feeding Disorders in Children.
Research Interests
Childhood eating behaviour; childhood obesity; growth faltering; food fussiness; neophobia; food refusal and selective eating. Caregiver feeding practices and their influence on child eating. Parental perceptions of child weight. Social cognition and anti-fat attitudes.
Selected publications
- Farrow, C., & Blissett, J., & Haycraft, E (in press) Does child weight influence how mothers report their feeding practices? International Journal of Pediatric Obesity.
- Haycraft, E., Farrow, C., Meyer, C., Powell, F & Blissett, J. (in press) Relationships between temperament and eating behaviours in young children, Appetite.
- Farrow, C, Haycraft, E & Meyer, C (in press) Similarities between Eating Attitudes Among Friendship Groups in Childhood: The Moderating Role of Child Anxiety, Journal of Pediatric Psychology (published online doi: 10.1093/jpepsy/jsp105).
- Payne, L., Martz, D., Tomkins, K.B., Petroff, A.B. & Farrow, C.V. (in press) Gender Comparisons of Fat Talk in the United Kingdom and the United States, Sex Roles : A Journal of Research. Published online DOI 10.1007/s11199-010-9881-4 http://www.springerlink.com/content/014724537x556237/).
- Farrow, C & Fox, C. (in press) Gender differences in the relationships between bullying at school and unhealthy eating and shape related attitudes and behaviors, British Journal of Educational Psychology. (Published online DOI:10.1348/000709910X525804).
- Farrow, C. (in press). Psychological Influences upon children eating. Encyclopedia of Psychology Research (2 Volume Set). Nova publishers.
- Powell, F., Farrow, C., Haycraft, E & Meyer, C. (in press) Appetite regulation in early childhood: The impact of parenting behaviours and child temperament. To appear in Appetite: Regulation, role in disease and control. Nova Publishers.
- Tarrant, M., Hagger, M. & Farrow, C. (August 2011). Promoting Positive Orientation towards Health through Social Identity, Chapter to appear in J. Jetten, C. Haslam, & S. A. Haslam (Eds.), The Social Cure: Identity, Health, and Well-being. ISBN: 9781848720213. Taylor & Francis: Psychology Press.
- Galloway, A, Farrow, C & Martz, D. (2010) Retrospective reports of child feeding practices, current eating behaviors, and body mass index in college students, Obesity, 18: 1330-1335.
- Blissett, J., Haycraft, E & Farrow, C. (2010) Inducing preschool children’s emotional eating: relationships with parental feeding practices. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 92,359-65
You can view a fuller publications list on the University Publications Database.