Determinants of Exercise among Children. II. A Longitudinal Analysis

Association of liking and reinforcing value with children's physical activity

“…Research has demonstrated that both RRV [9] and liking [14][15][16][17]28] of physical activity are associated with the amount of physical activity that children engage in. This study extends previous research by including measures of both RRV and liking of physical activity and demonstrating that RRV and liking are independently associated with time in MVPA.…”

“…For each question the child was given a choice between the number of times they were willing to press a button on the counter to gain 10 minutes access to their most highly rated videotaped cartoon or to gain access to their most highly rated physical activity. For cartoons the number of button presses started with 20 for question number 1 and increased by an additional 20 presses for each subsequent question until a total of 320 button presses was required for question 16. For physical activity the number of button presses remained at 20 for all questions.…”

“…Liking or hedonics refers to an affective rating associated with the behavior [10][11][12][13], and people may be more likely to engage in behaviors that they like than ones that they do not like. Liking is associated with physical activity in youth [14][15][16][17].…”

Effects of after-school physical activity on fitness, fatness, and cognitive self-perceptions: a pilot study among urban, minority adolescent girls

“…15,16 This was a pilot study; our sample was small, and there was no control group. Participants, all volunteers, might have had less body fat, been more fit, and been more highly motivated than their peers.…”

The influence of child physical activity programs on parent physical activity in a rural community.

“…However, the level of parental influence appears to change over time, decreasing as children age (Alderman, Benham-Deal, & Jenkins, 2010) Demographics such as race, ethnicity, parent education levels, parent and child gender, and number of children in the home also contribute to differences in the level of parent-child influence (Anderson, Hughes, & Fuemmeler, 2009;Bauer et al, 2008;Hennessy et al, 2010;McMinn et al, 2011). Strength of behavioral influence also appears to differ across parent-child dyads (for example, mother-daughter, mother-son, father-daughter, father-son) (Craig et al, 2013;DiLorenzo, Stucky-Ropp, Vander Wal, & Gotham, 1998). Financial constraints among lower SES families may decrease family support for and participation in structured physical activity programs (Brockman et al, 2009).…”