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Associations between South African preschoolers’ routine physical activity, self-regulation and psychosocial well-being
- Source :
- Mental Health and Physical Activity. 20:100383
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2021.
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Abstract
- Physical activity (PA) is an essential health behaviour with a wide range of benefits, including the potential for a beneficial association with self-regulation and psychosocial well-being. However, evidence for this relationship remains scarce in the preschool age-group and in low-income countries. Therefore, this study aimed to examine the relationship between self-regulation and psychosocial well-being on the one hand and objectively measured, free-living PA in 119 preschool children (Mage = 50.7 months, SD = 8.4) on the other from low-income settings in South Africa. PA was objectively measured using accelerometry and teacher-report ratings of self-regulation and psychosocial well-being were collected. Results revealed that time spent in both TPA (B = −0.233, p = 0.005) and MVPA (B = −0.181, p = 0.039) was negatively associated with self-regulation skills. Additionally, time spent in TPA (B = 0.180, p = 0.034) was positively (detrimentally) associated with externalising behaviour problems. This study suggests a negative association between self-regulation as well as externalising behaviour and PA, but also highlights the need for more comprehensive and longitudinal research in low and middle-income countries, taking into consideration the nature and context of free-living PA in these settings in order to better understand these relationships and their potential confounds.
- Subjects :
- Health behaviour
Physical activity
Context (language use)
030229 sport sciences
Negative association
030227 psychiatry
03 medical and health sciences
Psychiatry and Mental health
0302 clinical medicine
Well-being
Early childhood
Psychology
Association (psychology)
Psychosocial
Applied Psychology
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17552966
- Volume :
- 20
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Mental Health and Physical Activity
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........a3467e4d0cc874e8ab402ee60e5d86c8
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mhpa.2021.100383