ArticleBMC public health2016
An intergenerational study of perceptions of changes in active free play among families from rural areas of Western Canada.
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- Parent perceived barriers and facilitators of children's adventurous play in Britain: a framework analysis.BMC public health · 2022Article
- A Web-Based Risk-Reframing Intervention to Influence Early Childhood Educators' Attitudes and Supportive Behaviors Toward Outdoor Play: Protocol for the OutsidePlay Study Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2021Article
- Children's Independent Mobility and Physical Activity during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study with Families.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Paving the Way for Outdoor Play: Examining Socio-Environmental Barriers to Community-Based Outdoor Play.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- It's about being the good parent: exploring attitudes and beliefs towards active school transportation.International journal of circumpolar health · 2020Article
- [Social representations of physical activity and active play in preschoolers: scoping review.]Revista espanola de salud publica · 2020Article
- Exploring the Effect of Perceptions on Children's Physical Activity in Varying Geographic Contexts: Using a Structural Equation Modelling Approach to Examine a Cross-Sectional Dataset.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
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backgroundChildren's engagement in active free play has declined across recent generations. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine perceptions of intergenerational changes in active free play among families from rural areas. We addressed two research questions: (1) How has active free play changed across three generations? (2) What suggestions do participants have for reviving active free play?
methodsData were collected via 49 individual interviews with members of 16 families (15 grandparents, 16 parents, and 18 children) residing in rural areas/small towns in the Province of Alberta (Canada). Interview recordings were transcribed verbatim and subjected to thematic analysis guided by an ecological framework of active free play.
resultsFactors that depicted the changing nature of active free play were coded in the themes of less imagination/more technology, safety concerns, surveillance, other children to play with, purposeful physical activity, play spaces/organized activities, and the good parenting ideal. Suggestions for reviving active free play were coded in the themes of enhance facilities to keep kids entertained, provide more opportunities for supervised play, create more community events, and decrease use of technology.
conclusionsThese results reinforce the need to consider multiple levels of social ecology in the study of active free play, and highlight the importance of community-based initiatives to revive active free play in ways that are consistent with contemporary notions of good parenting.
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