Keeping It in the Family: The Generational Transmission of Physical Activity

Palmer, Victoria J.

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“…However, a main effect of parental physical activity was found. An intergenerational transmission of beliefs and preferences towards physical activity may be an explanation for this (Palmer, 2015), suggesting that parents may still have an effect on their offspring's behavior irrespectively of living or not living together. Nonetheless, this effect may fade after a longer period of residence away from the parental home (Palmer, 2015).…”

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“…An intergenerational transmission of beliefs and preferences towards physical activity may be an explanation for this (Palmer, 2015), suggesting that parents may still have an effect on their offspring's behavior irrespectively of living or not living together. Nonetheless, this effect may fade after a longer period of residence away from the parental home (Palmer, 2015). Moreover, evidence suggesting that alcohol use typically happens outside the parental home and in the peer context (Gfroerer et al, 1997) can help explain the non-significant association between student drinking behavior and coresidence with parents.…”

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Health behaviors of German university freshmen during COVID-19 in association with health behaviors of close social ties, living arrangement, and time spent with peers

Gesualdo

Pinquart

2021

Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine

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Objective: The start of university is a critical period for health risk behavior (i.e. eating, physical activity, alcohol use) which can be influenced by expectations and by environmental factors such as living arrangement, health behaviors of close social ties (i.e. parents, partners, peers), and time spent with peers. We investigated associations between environmental factors and current/expected health behaviors of German freshmen during the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: A cross-sectional survey design was used. A total of N = 208 students (82.7% female; M age = 20.90, SD = 4.10) completed an online questionnaire assessing health behaviors and environmental factors at the beginning of their first semester. Results: Current and expected physical activity was associated to that of all social ties, current and expected alcohol use to partner's and peers' alcohol use, while current and expected eating was only associated to peers' eating. The relationship between partner's or peers' and participant's alcohol use was moderated by coresidence, with a greater probability of engaging in these behaviors observed in case of coresidence. Perceived peer encouragement for alcohol consumption moderated the relationship between peer alcohol use and the number of drinks consumed by participants per month. Participants who spend more time with peers were more likely to consume higher amounts of alcohol. No differences were found regarding present and expected behaviors of participants who moved out of their parents' home and those who did not. Conclusion: Partners and peers significantly influence students' health behaviors, particularly alcohol use. Interventions to prevent health risk behaviors among freshmen should therefore address these social ties' influence.

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Health behaviors of German university freshmen during COVID-19 in association with health behaviors of close social ties, living arrangement, and time spent with peers

Gesualdo

Pinquart

2021

Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine

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“…Most participants reported long and positive family histories of involvement in sport and physical activity. Participants described how sport had been core to their family background since childhood and was an established element of their personal identity (Palmer, 2015; Dionigi et al, 2013: 310). While the northwest coast region of Tasmania is marked by high levels of social inequality, the local (and interstate) participants largely came from middle-class backgrounds.…”

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“…Dionigi, 2015; Dionigi and Litchfield, 2018) research that shows Masters athletes are a privileged social group, most of the interviewees were from middle-class backgrounds, possessing post-compulsory educational qualifications and employed in professional occupations. While participants commonly framed their ongoing involvement in sport due to essentialising notions such as sport being ‘in the genes’ or possessing a ‘sporty nature’, it is difficult to deny the class privileges that underpin their intergenerational family engagement with sport (Hayoz et al, 2019; Palmer, 2015). Despite Masters sporting events such as the AMG being framed by governments, policy-makers and community advocates as vehicles to increase physical activity for older populations, these findings support claims that Masters events are economically and socially exclusive (Dionigi and Litchfield, 2018) and most participants are already physically active.…”

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Becoming and being a masters athlete: Class, gender, place and the embodied formation of (anti)-ageing moral identities

Hookway,

Palmer,

Dwyer

et al. 2023

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Once discouraged or viewed as dangerous, Masters athletes are now seen as exemplars of how people should age. This paper qualitatively examines the sporting pathways, embodied experiences and the moral formation of ageing identities among ‘young-old’ athletes competing in the 16th Australian Masters Games. Held in regional Tasmania (Australia), the Games attracted over 5000 participants competing across 47 sports over an 8-day period. Contributing to a critical body of scholarship on Masters athletes, the paper shows that class and gender inequality shape processes of becoming and being a Masters athlete that are rarely acknowledged in the ‘heroic ageing’ accounts the participants narrate. Further, the paper develops a unique spatial perspective on Masters sport that recognises the potential of the Games to disrupt place-based stigma but also identifies its class dimensions both as a site of middle-class shame and consumer opportunity for affluent sports tourists. We draw upon Allen-Collinson's concept of ‘intense embodiment’ to spotlight the sensory pleasures, pain and injuries of training and competing as an older athlete but also as an important lens for analysing the construction of ageing moral identities that can stigmatise and exclude the inactive old.

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“…The concept of career can be used as a heuristic device (Palmer 2015) to account for behaviours such as informal physical activity or serious leisure (Stebbins 2014) by making explicit the experiential, sensate and historical processes which promote or hinder the take up of a physical activity as well as its maintenance over decades. I have shown in my own work (author; author) that what triggers an action may be transformed later by the very involvement in the action itself with new dimensions of experience discovered.…”

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Becoming a hillwalker: incorporating history in understandings of physical activity

Tulle

2017

Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health

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This paper challenges dominant explanations of physical activity participation in later life as they tend to prioritise individual motivation at the expense of other explanations. Reference is also made to generational characteristics. What the recourse to generation tends to do is reinforce stereotypes of age, while the more complex and deep-seated processes which affect the development of dispositions to physical movement are not highlighted. Furthermore the conditions in which physical activity can be maintained throughout the lifecourse are occluded. I propose therefore that we should recast physical activity participation within the context of a history of appropriate and normative physicality acting as a weight which infuses whether and how we develop physical activity as a durable practice. In the process I will adopt an eclectic theoretical stance. To bring the complexities of physical activity participation to the fore, I will focus on my own experiences of a particular type of physical activity: hillwalking. I will make the case for a critical autobiographical approach to show how important history has been in the awakening of my physical dispositions and in the long journey of identity formation. I conclude that we can conceive of obstacles to physically active embodiment as manifestations of oppression rather than as a question of individual motivation.

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Keeping It in the Family: The Generational Transmission of Physical Activity

Cited by 3 publications

References 28 publications

Health behaviors of German university freshmen during COVID-19 in association with health behaviors of close social ties, living arrangement, and time spent with peers

Health behaviors of German university freshmen during COVID-19 in association with health behaviors of close social ties, living arrangement, and time spent with peers

Becoming and being a masters athlete: Class, gender, place and the embodied formation of (anti)-ageing moral identities

Becoming a hillwalker: incorporating history in understandings of physical activity

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