1. Pyschosocial factors associated with children's cycling for transport: A cross-sectional moderation study
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Peter Clarys, Greet Cardon, Alison Carver, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Bas de Geus, Ariane Ghekiere, Benedicte Deforche, Lieze Mertens, Jelle Van Cauwenberg, Faculty of Physical Education and Physical Therapy, Movement and Sport Sciences, Human Physiology and Special Physiology of Physical Education, Human Physiology and Sports Physiotherapy Research Group, Physiotherapy, Human Physiology and Anatomy, Movement and Nutrition for Health and Performance, Spine Research Group, General and Biological Chemistry, Fitness and Health Promotion, Physical Activity and Nutrition, and Kinanthropometry
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Psychosocial factors associated with children's cycling for transport: A cross-sectional moderation study ,Gerontology ,Male ,safety ,Epidemiology ,Cross-sectional study ,Poison control ,030209 endocrinology & metabolism ,Transportation ,Odds ,active living ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Active living ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,Injury prevention ,Medicine ,Humans ,Psychology ,active transport ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Child ,business.industry ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Social Support ,parents ,social cognitive theory ,Moderation ,Self Efficacy ,Bicycling ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,transport ,Female ,business ,Cycling ,Psychosocial ,self-efficacy ,Demography - Abstract
Promoting children's cycling for transport is a useful strategy to increase their physical activity levels. No studies have examined to which extent children's psychosocial characteristics play a role in their transportation cycling. Furthermore, insights into the association between children's independent mobility (IM) and transportation cycling is lacking in Europe. This study examined (1) the association of children's psychosocial characteristics with transportation cycling and its moderating effect of child's gender, parents' educational attainment and IM, and (2) the association between children's IM and transportation cycling. Children (n = 1232, aged 10–12 yrs) completed an online questionnaire at school assessing their psychosocial characteristics related with transportation cycling. Parents reported child's usual transportation cycling and the distance their child is allowed to cycle unsupervised (IM). Hurdle models were used to estimate associations between independent variables and odds of being a cyclist and with minutes of transportation cycling among those cycling. Data were collected during November–December 2014 across Flanders, Belgium. Children's perceived parental modeling, parental norm, peers' co-participation, self-efficacy and IM were positively related to the odds of being a cyclist, perceived benefits were negatively associated. Parental modeling, siblings' modeling, self-efficacy and parental norm were more strongly related to the odds of being a cyclist among children with a low IM. Friends' modeling was significantly related with odds of being a cyclist among boys. IM and parental norm (only among boys) were positively related to the time spent cycling. Targeting children, their friends and parents seems therefore most appropriate when aiming to increase children's transportation cycling.
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- 2016