TY - JOUR
T1 - Pyschosocial factors associated with children's cycling for transport
T2 - A cross-sectional moderation study
AU - Ghekiere, Ariane
AU - Van Cauwenberg, Jelle
AU - Carver, Alison
AU - Mertens, Lieze
AU - de Geus, Bas
AU - Clarys, Peter
AU - Cardon, Greet
AU - De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse
AU - Deforche, Benedicte
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors want to thank all master students for their assistance with data collection. The authors want to thank all school principals who agreed to be involved in the study. We also want to thank all the participating children and their parents for their interest in the study. AG is funded by a grant from Scientific Research Foundation Flanders (FWO, GA11111N ). JVC is funded by a PhD fellowship from Scientific Research Foundation Flanders (FWO, 11N0313N )
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2016/5
Y1 - 2016/5
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Active living
KW - Active transport
KW - Parents
KW - Safety
KW - Self-efficacy
KW - Social cognitive theory
KW - Transport
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ypmed.2016.03.001
DO - 10.1016/j.ypmed.2016.03.001
M3 - Article
C2 - 26968778
AN - SCOPUS:84960899486
SN - 0091-7435
VL - 86
SP - 141
EP - 146
JO - Preventive Medicine
JF - Preventive Medicine
ER -
