An ecological stance on risk and safe behaviors in children: The role of affordances and emergent behaviors

Cordovil, Rita; Araújo, Duarte; Pepping, Gert‐Jan; Barreiros, João

doi:10.1016/j.newideapsych.2014.10.007

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“…While in part adventure has been designed into the everyday environment in the form of segregated adventure playgrounds for children [72,73] the role of adventure in the wellbeing of the broader society has been overlooked [73]. Designing challenging features into the everyday urban environment that invite adventurous activities such as climbing (for example, trees to climb rather than look at or sit under or rope and other climbable features that might invite climbing from one level to another alongside steps, elevators, ramps or escalators) might be one way to enhance the psychological health and wellbeing of the broader society [73,74].…”

Section: The Environment Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adventurous Physical Activity Environments: A Mainstream Intervention for Mental Health

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Adventurous physical activity has traditionally been considered the pastime of a small minority of people with deviant personalities or characteristics that compel them to voluntarily take great risks purely for the sake of thrills and excitement. An unintended consequence of these traditional narratives is the relative absence of adventure activities in mainstream health and well-being discourses and in large-scale governmental health initiatives. However, recent research has demonstrated that even the most extreme adventurous physical activities are linked to enhanced psychological health and well-being outcomes. These benefits go beyond traditional 'character building' concepts and emphasize more positive frameworks that rely on the development of effective environmental design. Based on emerging research, this paper demonstrates why adventurous physical activity should be considered a mainstream intervention for positive mental health. Furthermore, the authors argue that understanding how to design environments that effectively encourage appropriate adventure should be considered a serious addition to mainstream health and well-being discourse.3

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Section: The Environment Approachmentioning

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Adventurous Physical Activity Environments: A Mainstream Intervention for Mental Health

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“…Well-designed play environments contain many variable opportunities to achieve the same movement goal, giving people experience in adapting their behaviours to dynamic contexts. To become more skilful in adaptive behaviours, people need to be exposed to more variability in a perceptualmotor workspace to gain experience such as managing potential dangers, so that they can experience a 'gradient of risks' when playing and exercising, rather than seeking to eliminate it completely from their environments [20]. Cordovil et al [20] pointed out that a safe environment is not the same as a risk-free one.…”

Section: How Affordances Can Enhance Opportunities For Physical Activmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To become more skilful in adaptive behaviours, people need to be exposed to more variability in a perceptualmotor workspace to gain experience such as managing potential dangers, so that they can experience a 'gradient of risks' when playing and exercising, rather than seeking to eliminate it completely from their environments [20]. Cordovil et al [20] pointed out that a safe environment is not the same as a risk-free one. A risk-free environment, without any element of danger, is almost impossible to design.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These Gibsonian ideas suggest that our understanding of what constitutes risky play environments could benefit from analysis of how different individuals (e.g., children, adults, elderly people, people with disabilities) behave in those environments. Cordovil et al [20] proposed that "risk" is not an entity in a specific play environment, but is a relationship that emerges from continuous interactions between a specific individual (with particular action capabilities) and an environmental context. Gibsonian ideas imply that some affordances may have negative consequences for individuals.…”

Section: How Affordances Can Enhance Opportunities For Physical Activmentioning

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Designing Affordances for Health-Enhancing Physical Activity and Exercise in Sedentary Individuals

2016

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Ideas in ecological dynamics have profound implications for designing environments that offer opportunities for physical activity, exercise and play in sedentary individuals. They imply how exercise scientists, health professionals, planners, designers and engineers, and psychologists, can collaborate in co-designing environments and playscapes that facilitate physical activity and exercise behaviours in different population sub-groups. Here, we discuss how concepts in ecological dynamics emphasise the person-environment scale of analysis indicating how physical activity environments might be (re)designed into qualitative regions of functional significance (affordances) that invite health enhancing behaviours according to individuals' capacities and skills (effectivities).Key Points: 1.Exercise uptake and adherence is influenced by thoughtful design of environments. 2.A multidisciplinary approach to physical activity is best able to initiate the required design features. 3.Designers for physical activity must understand the relationship between functional aspects of the environment and individual characteristics.

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“…There are three aspects need to be considered in term of safety for children which is the design environment need to be suitable for children, consideration of children capability that differ from the adults and the unpredictable behaviour of the children (Cordovil, Araújo, Pepping, & Barreiros, 2015).…”

Section: Safetymentioning

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Children Activities in Public Housing

Hanapi¹,

Ahmad²

2016

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When living in a high-density public housing, children, and physical activities might be an issue as the physical environment may inhibit their outdoor activities. The objective of this paper is to focus on the impact of the physical environment in public housing which affects the children's physical activity inhibitive. The method employed is mainly through a literature review of published article and journal. There is four distinguished physical characteristic that highlighted in this paper. Poor safety, crowding, limited facilities and poor neighbourhood relationship prove to contribute less physical activities to the children.

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An ecological stance on risk and safe behaviors in children: The role of affordances and emergent behaviors

Cited by 36 publications

References 83 publications

Adventurous Physical Activity Environments: A Mainstream Intervention for Mental Health

Adventurous Physical Activity Environments: A Mainstream Intervention for Mental Health

Designing Affordances for Health-Enhancing Physical Activity and Exercise in Sedentary Individuals

Children Activities in Public Housing

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