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Overview

Brent A. McBride conducts research primarily at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their scholarly work is situated within the field of Medicine, with a focus on interdisciplinary subfields including Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Epidemiology, Clinical Psychology, and Education.

The main topics covered by Brent A. McBride's research include child nutrition and feeding issues, obesity, physical activity, diet, breastfeeding practices and influences, eating disorders and behaviors, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, biochemical analysis and sensing techniques, and early childhood education and development.

Their recent publications demonstrate a consistent focus on childhood nutrition, family dynamics related to eating behaviors, and breastfeeding support. Notable papers include "Fathers' food parenting: A scoping review of the literature from 1990 to 2019" (2020) published in Pediatric Obesity, "Father support for breastfeeding mothers who plan to utilize childcare: A qualitative look at Mothers' perspectives" (2021) in Appetite, "Influences of Child Temperament and Household Chaos on Preschoolers' Emotional Eating" (2022) in Childhood Obesity, "Biopsychosocial pathways model of early childhood appetite self-regulation: Temperament as a key to modulation of interactions among systems" (2024) in Social Science & Medicine, and "Breastfeeding Information and Support Across Multiple Sources: Identifying Opportunities for Coordinated Care" (2020) in Clinical Lactation.

Frequent collaborators with whom Brent A. McBride has co-authored multiple works include Kirsten K. Davison, Barbara H. Fiese, Jess Haines, Sehyun Ju, and Kelly K. Bost.

Their research outputs frequently appear in the following publication venues:

  • Appetite
  • Pediatric Obesity
  • Childhood Obesity
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • Clinical Lactation

The scope of Brent A. McBride's work emphasizes a multidisciplinary approach to child nutrition, maternal support, and psychological factors influencing early childhood health behaviors.

Best Publications

  • Child Characteristics, Parenting Stress, and Parental Involvement: Fathers versus Mothers.

    Brent A. McBride;Sarah J. Schoppe;Thomas R. Rane

  • A comparison of mother and father involvement with their preschool age children

    Brent A. McBride;Gail Mills

  • Paternal Identity, Maternal Gatekeeping, and Father Involvement.

    Brent A. McBride;Geoffrey L. Brown;Kelly K. Bost;Nana Shin

  • Identity Theory as a Guide to Understanding Fathers' Involvement With Their Children

    Thomas R. Rane;Brent A. McBride

  • Toward a Developmental Conceptualization of Contributors to Overweight and Obesity in Childhood: The Six‐Cs Model

    Kristen Harrison;Kelly K. Bost;Brent A. McBride;Sharon M. Donovan

  • Parenting Alliance as a Predictor of Father Involvement: An Exploratory Study

    Brent A. McBride;Thomas R. Rane

  • The mediating role of fathers' school involvement on student achievement.

    Brent A. McBride;Sarah J. Schoppe-Sullivan;Moon Ho Ho

  • Parenting predictors of father-child attachment security: Interactive effects of father involvement and fathering quality.

    Geoffrey L. Brown;Brent A. McBride;Nana Shin;Kelly K. Bost

  • Risk Factors for Overweight/Obesity in Preschool Children: An Ecological Approach

    Dipti A Dev;Brent A McBride;Barbara H Fiese;Blake L Jones

  • Unidimensional Versus Multidimensional Perspectives on Father Involvement

    Sarah J. Schoppe-Sullivan;Brent A. McBride;Moon-Ho Ringo Ho

  • Maternal secure base scripts, children's attachment security, and mother - Child narrative styles

    Kelly K. Bost;Nana Shin;Brent A. Mcbride;Geoffrey L. Brown

  • The Effects of a Parent Education/Play Group Program on Father Involvement in Child Rearing

    Brent A. McBride

  • Stress and Fathers' Parental Competence: Implications for Family Life and Parent Educators.

    Brent A. McBride

  • Role identity, role investments, and paternal involvement: Implications for parenting programs for men.

    Brent A. McBride;Thomas R. Rane

  • The Differential Impact of Early Father and Mother Involvement on Later Student Achievement

    Brent A. McBride;W. Justin Dyer;Ying Liu;Geoffrey L. Brown

  • The quality of maternal secure-base scripts predicts children's secure-base behavior at home in three sociocultural groups

    Brian E. Vaughn;Gabrielle Coppola;Manuela Veríssimo;Lígia Maria Santos Monteiro

  • Parental Involvement, Child Temperament, and Parents' Work Hours: Differential Relations for Mothers and Fathers.

    Geoffrey L. Brown;Brent A. McBride;Kelly K. Bost;Nana Shin

  • Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Benchmarks for Nutrition in Child Care 2011: Are Child-Care Providers across Contexts Meeting Recommendations?

    Dipti A. Dev;Brent A. McBride;Kristen Harrison;Kelly Bost

  • Parent education and support programs for fathers: Outcome effects on paternal involvement

    Brent A. McBride

  • Intervening with teachers to encourage father/male involvement in early childhood programs

    Brent A. McBride;Thomas R. Rane;Ji Hi Bae

Frequent Co-Authors

Kelly K. Bost
Kelly K. Bost University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Barbara H. Fiese
Barbara H. Fiese University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Brian E. Vaughn
Brian E. Vaughn Auburn University
Kristen Harrison
Kristen Harrison University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Joseph H. Pleck
Joseph H. Pleck University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sarah J. Schoppe-Sullivan
Sarah J. Schoppe-Sullivan The Ohio State University

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