Associations Between Parents’ and 12-Year-Old Children’s Sport and Vigorous Activity: The Role of Self-Esteem and Athletic Competence

Eriksson, M.; Nordqvist, Tobias; Rasmussen, Finn

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“…These findings are consistent with previous research conducted by Taylor et al, who found also a positive association between parental activity and child’s activity (r = .17-.28) [50]. Eriksson et al found similar associations of parent-child physical activity relationships between 12-year-olds and their parents [51]. Parental physical activity was also assessed with the HPAQ, while children’s physical activity was administered with general questions about sports participation and further vigorous activities.…”

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“…Parental physical activity was also assessed with the HPAQ, while children’s physical activity was administered with general questions about sports participation and further vigorous activities. They conclude that the family environment is “[…] an important target for interventions to increase physical activity in children […]” [51]. In this connection, Dunton et al [52] suggested that joint physical activity in parent-child pairs could have health benefits for both children and parents, “[…] especially for girls, older children, older parents, and higher income families”.…”

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Child-caregivers’ body weight and habitual physical activity status is associated with overweight in kindergartners

2014

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BackgroundThe aim of this study was to examine whether child-caregivers’, both parents and kindergarten teachers, health parameters (age, weight status, habitual physical activity score) are significantly associated with the risk of overweight in young children.MethodsWe assessed the individual body mass index standard deviation score in a regional cross-sectional health study and matched a representative sample of 434 kindergartners aged 3 to 6-years with their caregivers’ weight and habitual physical activity status. Furthermore, we identified factors associated with the general ability of child-caregivers to identify overweight in children, and the awareness to classify a child within the correct weight category.ResultsOur study confirmed most of the known associations between parental anthropometrics and psychosocial factors with childhood overweight and obesity. A significantly higher proportion of boys tended to be overweight or obese (p = 0.027) and parents were more likely to misclassified boys overweight as normal weight (OR: 1.86; 95% CI 1.21-2.86). Adjusted for confounders, logistic regression analysis revealed that kindergarten teachers’ weight status (OR: 1.97; 95%-CI: 1.01-3.83) and habitual physical activity scores (OR: 2.32; 95%-CI: 1.10-4.92) were associated with children’s weight status.ConclusionsKindergarten teachers’ weight and habitual physical activity score seem to be new independent risk factors for overweight in kindergartners 3 to 6-years of age. Our results suggest that the psychosocial, non-genetic association of non-parental child-caregivers on children’s weight is relatively high and that the association of non-parental child-caregivers warrants further investigation.

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Child-caregivers’ body weight and habitual physical activity status is associated with overweight in kindergartners

2014

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“…Although it is difficult to compare our results with the results of existing studies, we discovered, similar to studies based on objective and subjective monitoring of PA [10,11,12,13,14,15,16,20,21,56,57] and SED [14,20,58], a significant positive correlation between parents’ and children’s PA as well as between parents’ and children’s SED. Difficulties in comparing our findings with the results of other studies include differences in the number of monitored days, duration of daily monitoring of PA and SED, type of monitoring instruments, logbooks and questionnaires and the fact that some studies had data from only one parent, whereas others had data from both parents.…”

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Parent-Child Associations in Pedometer-Determined Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour on Weekdays and Weekends in Random Samples of Families in the Czech Republic

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Sigmund

Vokáčová

et al. 2014

IJERPH

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This study investigates whether more physically active parents bring up more physically active children and whether parents’ level of physical activity helps children achieve step count recommendations on weekdays and weekends. The participants (388 parents aged 35–45 and their 485 children aged 9–12) were randomly recruited from 21 Czech government-funded primary schools. The participants recorded pedometer step counts for seven days (≥10 h a day) during April–May and September–October of 2013. Logistic regression (Enter method) was used to examine the achievement of the international recommendations of 11,000 steps/day for girls and 13,000 steps/day for boys. The children of fathers and mothers who met the weekend recommendation of 10,000 steps were 5.48 (95% confidence interval: 1.65; 18.19; p < 0.01) and 3.60 times, respectively (95% confidence interval: 1.21; 10.74; p < 0.05) more likely to achieve the international weekend recommendation than the children of less active parents. The children of mothers who reached the weekday pedometer-based step count recommendation were 4.94 times (95% confidence interval: 1.45; 16.82; p < 0.05) more likely to fulfil the step count recommendation on weekdays than the children of less active mothers.

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“…Furthermore, family background may confound the association between motor proficiency in early life and physical activity in later life since longitudinal observational follow-up studies may be affected by unobserved confounding factors, such as the childhood environment. Many of the possible factors associated with physical activity seem to have their roots in childhood and family experiences (8, 9, 12, 34, 35, 39). Hence, familial factors could explain at least a part of the association between motor proficiency and physical activity.…”

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Motor Development and Physical Activity

Aaltonen

Latvala

Rose

et al. 2015

Medicine &Amp; Science in Sports &Amp; Exercise

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Introduction Previous longitudinal research suggests that motor proficiency in early life predicts physical activity in adulthood. Familial effects including genetic and environmental factors could explain the association, but no long-term follow-up studies have taken into account potential confounding by genetic and social family background. The present twin study investigated whether childhood motor skill development is associated with leisure-time physical activity levels in adulthood independent of family background. Methods Altogether, 1 550 twin pairs from the FinnTwin12 study and 1 752 twin pairs from the FinnTwin16 study were included in the analysis. Childhood motor development was assessed by the parents’ report of whether one of the co-twins had been ahead of the other in different indicators of motor skill development in childhood. Leisure-time physical activity (MET hours/day) was self-reported by the twins in young adulthood and adulthood. Statistical analyses included conditional and ordinary linear regression models within twin pairs. Results Using all activity-discordant twin pairs, the within-pair difference in a sum score of motor development in childhood predicted the within-pair difference in the leisure-time physical activity level in young adulthood (p<0.001). Within specific motor development indicators, learning to stand unaided earlier in infancy predicted higher leisure-time MET values in young adulthood statistically significantly in both samples (FinnTwin12 p=0.02, FinnTwin16 p=0.001) and also in the pooled dataset of the FinnTwin12 and FinnTwin16 studies (p<0.001). Having been more agile than the co-twin as a child predicted higher leisure-time MET values up to adulthood (p=0.03). Conclusions More advanced childhood motor development is associated with higher leisure-time MET values in young adulthood at least partly independent of family background, in both men and women.

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Associations Between Parents’ and 12-Year-Old Children’s Sport and Vigorous Activity: The Role of Self-Esteem and Athletic Competence

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Child-caregivers’ body weight and habitual physical activity status is associated with overweight in kindergartners

Child-caregivers’ body weight and habitual physical activity status is associated with overweight in kindergartners

Parent-Child Associations in Pedometer-Determined Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour on Weekdays and Weekends in Random Samples of Families in the Czech Republic

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