Parenting Styles and Infant Weight-for-Length Z Scores in China, 2023-2024

Supplementary file 1 from a cross-sectional study exploring the association between parenting styles and weight-for-length z scores among infants and toddlers aged 0–36 months in China. The study recruited 1,164 participants from July 2023 to March 2024, with 1,128 included in the final analysis. Author Jing Sun published the dataset under a CC-BY-4.0 license on figshare.

Use Cases

• Analyze associations between parenting styles and infant growth metrics based on the described weight-for-length z scores.
• Conduct subgroup analyses based on the described sex and age stratification.
• Replicate or validate the described multivariable linear regression models with progressive adjustment.
• Explore the relationship between authoritative parenting and overweight likelihood based on the sensitivity analysis results.

Strengths

• Dataset is derived from a study with a defined sample size of 1,128 infants and toddlers.
• Analysis includes multiple methodological approaches: multivariable linear regression, sex-stratified, age-stratified, and sensitivity analyses.
• Data collection period is explicitly stated as July 2023 to March 2024.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The primary analysis found no statistically significant association, indicating the main relationship under study may be weak or absent.

Provenance

Source

Jing Sun via figshare.

Collection Method

Cross-sectional study using a standardized questionnaire and WHO growth standard calculations.

Time Range

Data collected from July 2023 to March 2024.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-20 05:23:34; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China.