1. Temperament Is Associated With Outdoor Free Play in Young Children: A TARGet Kids! Study
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Julia R. Sharp, Jonathon L. Maguire, Sarah Carsley, Kawsari Abdullah, Yang Chen, Eliana M. Perrin, Patricia C. Parkin, Catherine S. Birken, Eddy Lau, Andreas Laupacis, Michael Salter, Peter Szatmari, Shannon Weir, Mary Aglipay, Yamna Ali, Laura N. Anderson, Imaan Bayoumi, Cornelia M. Borkhoff, Shiyi Chen, David W.H. Dai, Denise Darmawikarta, Cindy-Lee Dennis, Karen Eny, Stephanie Erdle, Kayla Furlong, Kanthi Kavikondala, Christine Koroshegyi, Christine Kowal, Grace Jieun Lee, Dalah Mason, Jessica Omand, Navindra Persaud, Lesley Plumptre, Meta van den Heuvel, Shelley Vanderhout, Peter Wong, Weeda Zabih, Murtala Abdurrahman, Barbara Anderson, Kelly Anderson, Gordon Arbess, Jillian Baker, Tony Barozzino, Sylvie Bergeron, Dimple Bhagat, Nicholas Blanchette, Gary Bloch, Joey Bonifacio, Ashna Bowry, Anne Brown, Jennifer Bugera, Caroline Calpin, Douglas Campbell, Sohail Cheema, Elaine Cheng, Brian Chisamore, Evelyn Constantin, Erin Culbert, Karoon Danayan, Paul Das, Mary Beth Derocher, Anh Do, Michael Dorey, Kathleen Doukas, Anne Egger, Allison Farber, Amy Freedman, Sloane Freeman, Keewai Fung, Sharon Gazeley, Donna Goldenberg, Charlie Guiang, Dan Ha, Shuja Hafiz, Curtis Handford, Laura Hanson, Leah Harrington, Hailey Hatch, Teresa Hughes, Sheila Jacobson, Lukasz Jagiello, Gwen Jansz, Paul Kadar, Tara Kiran, Lauren Kitney, Holly Knowles, Bruce Kwok, Sheila Lakhoo, Margarita Lam-Antoniades, Fok-Han Leung, Alan Li, Patricia Li, Jennifer Loo, Joanne Louis, Sarah Mahmoud, Roy Male, Vashti Mascoll, Rosemary Moodie, Julia Morinis, Maya Nader, Sharon Naymark, Patricia Neelands, James Owen, Jane Parry, Michael Peer, Kifi Pena, Marty Perlmutar, Andrew Pinto, Tracy Pitt, Michelle Porepa, Vikky Qi, Nasreen Ramji, Noor Ramji, Jesleen Rana, Alana Rosenthal, Katherine Rouleau, Janet Saunderson, Rahul Saxena, Vanna Schiralli, Michael Sgro, Susan Shepherd, Barbara Smiltnieks, Cinntha Srikanthan, Carolyn Taylor, Suzanne Turner, Fatima Uddin, Joanne Vaughan, Thea Weisdorf, Sheila Wijayasinghe, Anne Wormsbecker, Ethel Ying, Elizabeth Young, Michael Zajdman, Marivic Bustos, Charmaine Camacho, Dharma Dalwadi, Thivia Jegathesan, Tarandeep Malhi, Sharon Thadani, Julia Thompson, Laurie Thompson, Christopher Allen, Bryan Boodhoo, Judith Hall, Peter Juni, Gerald Lebovic, Karen Pope, Jodi Shim, Kevin Thorpe, and Azar Azad
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Male ,Surgency ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Psychological intervention ,Negative affectivity ,Developmental psychology ,03 medical and health sciences ,Sex Factors ,0302 clinical medicine ,Risk Factors ,030225 pediatrics ,medicine ,Humans ,Obesity ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Temperament ,Association (psychology) ,Exercise ,media_common ,Extraversion and introversion ,Confounding ,Infant ,medicine.disease ,Play and Playthings ,Child, Preschool ,Multivariate Analysis ,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,Linear Models ,Female ,Sedentary Behavior ,Psychology ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
Objective Outdoor free play is important for preschoolers' physical activity, health, and development. Certain temperamental characteristics are associated with obesity, nutrition, and sedentary behaviors in preschoolers, but the relationship between temperament and outdoor play has not been examined. This study examined whether there is an association between temperament and outdoor play in young children. Methods Healthy children aged 1 to 5 years recruited to The Applied Research Group for Kids (TARGet Kids!), a community-based primary care research network, from July 2008 to September 2013 were included. Parent-reported child temperament was assessed using the Childhood Behavior Questionnaire. Outdoor free play and other potential confounding variables were assessed through validated questionnaires. Multivariable linear regression was used to determine the association between temperament and outdoor play, adjusted for potential confounders. Results There were 3393 children with data on outdoor play. The association between negative affectivity and outdoor play was moderated by sex; in boys, for every 1-point increase in negative affectivity score, mean outdoor play decreased by 4.7 minutes per day. There was no significant association in girls. Surgency was associated with outdoor play; for every 1-point increase in surgency/extraversion, outdoor play increased by 4.6 minutes per day. Conclusions Young children's temperamental characteristics were associated with their participation in outdoor free play. Consideration of temperament could enhance interventions and strategies to increase outdoor play in young children. Longitudinal studies are needed to elucidate the relationship between children's early temperament and physical activity.
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- 2018