ArticleAnnals of epidemiology2012
Is intergenerational social mobility related to the type and amount of physical activity in mid-adulthood? Results from the 1946 British birth cohort study.
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- Intergenerational social mobility and leisure-time physical activity in adulthood: a systematic review.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2017Pooled it
- Socioeconomic position during childhood and physical activity during adulthood: a systematic review.International journal of public health · 2015Pooled it
- Childhood socioeconomic position and adult leisure-time physical activity: a systematic review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2015Pooled it
- Twenty-Year Trajectories of Physical Activity Types from Midlife to Old Age.Medicine and science in sports and exercise · 2019Article
- Correlates of US adult physical activity and sedentary behavior patterns.Journal of science and medicine in sport · 2016Article
- Socioeconomic position across life and body composition in early old age: findings from a British birth cohort study.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2014Article
- Physical activity across adulthood in relation to fat and lean body mass in early old age: findings from the Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development, 1946-2010.American journal of epidemiology · 2014Article
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purposeGreater levels of leisure-time or moderate-vigorous physical activity have consistently been found in those with greater socioeconomic position (SEP). Less is known about the effects of intergenerational social mobility.
methodsWe examined the influence of SEP and social mobility on mid-adulthood physical activity in the Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development. Two sub-domains of SEP were used: occupational class and educational attainment. Latent classes for walking, cycling, and leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) were used, plus sedentary behavior at age 36. Associations between types of physical activity and SEP were examined with the use of logistic or multinomial logistic regression.
resultsBeing a manual worker oneself or having a father who was a manual worker was, relative to nonmanual work, associated with lower levels of sedentary behavior and greater walking activity, but also with lower LTPA. Compared with those who remained in a manual occupational class, upward occupational mobility was associated with more sedentary behavior, less walking, and increased LTPA. Associations with downward mobility were in the opposite directions. Similar results were obtained for educational attainment.
conclusionsThis study found clear evidence of social differences in physical activity. Persistently high SEP and upward social mobility were associated with greater levels of LTPA but also increased sedentary behavior and less walking.
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