- Title
- Perceptions of physical activity promotion, transportation support, physical activity, and body mass: an insight into parent-child dyadic processes
- Creator
- Horodyska, Karolina; Boberska, Monika; Kruk, Magdalena; Szczuka, Zofia; Wiggers, John; Wolfenden, Luke; Scholz, Urte; Radtke, Theda; Luszczynska, Aleksandra
- Relation
- International Journal of Behavioral Medicine Vol. 26, Issue 3, p. 255-265
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12529-019-09780-9
- Publisher
- Springer
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Background: Socio-ecological models indicate that family, school, and community environment explains children's physical activity and body weight. This study investigated whether parental perceptions of school/community-based physical activity (PA) promotion programs as well as parental and child perceptions of parental instrumental support for child PA (transportation provision) would predict child body weight. Child moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) was hypothesized to mediate these associations. Method: Data of 879 parent-child dyads were collected at two measurement points: the baseline (T1) and the 7-8-month follow-up (T2). Parents were 23-68 years old (83.3% women), while children were 5-11 years old (52.4% girls). Parents and children reported their perceptions of environment, support (T1), and MVPA (T1, T2). Parental and child body weight and height were measured objectively (T1, T2). Results: Path analyses indicated indirect effects of parental perceptions of school/community-based PA policies (T1) and parental perceptions of transportation provision (T1) on child body weight (T2), with child MVPA (T2) operating as the mediator. There were no direct or indirect effects of child perceptions of parental transportation provision (T1) on child MVPA or body weight (T2). Similar patterns of associations were found for the total sample and the subsample of children with overweight/obesity. Conclusion: Parental perceptions of school/community-based PA policies and transportation provision may explain changes in child MVPA and body weight. Interventions aimed at prevention of child overweight/obesity may benefit from a focus on parental transportation provision to PA facilities and parental awareness of PA promotion at local environment.
- Subject
- childhood obesity; moderate-to-vigorous physical activity; health promotion; instrumental social support
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1407673
- Identifier
- uon:35761
- Identifier
- ISSN:1070-5503
- Rights
- © The Author(s) 2019. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
- Language
- eng
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