SynthesisSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2018
Understanding Physical Activity through Interactions Between the Built Environment and Social Cognition: A Systematic Review.
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36 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Association between child and youth physical activity and family functioning: a systematic review of observational studies.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2025Pooled it
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- Socioeconomic position, built environment and physical activity among children and adolescents: a systematic review of mediating and moderating effects.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2022Pooled it
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- Barriers and enablers of vigorous intermittent lifestyle physical activity (VILPA) in physically inactive adults: a focus group study.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2023Article
- Normal pace walking is beneficial to young participants' executive abilities.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2022Article
- Social cognition theories and behavior change in COVID-19: A conceptual review.Behaviour research and therapy · 2022Review
- Affective judgments, environmental determinants, and physical activity in emerging and young adults.Psychology & health · 2022Article
- Exploring the Relationship Between Neighborhood-Built Environment and Elderly Health: A Research Based on Heterogeneity of Age and Gender Groups in Beijing.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundFew people in most developed nations engage in regular physical activity (PA), despite its well-established health benefits. Socioecological models highlight the potential interaction of multiple factors from policy and the built environment to individual social cognition in explaining PA.
objectiveThe purpose of this review was to appraise this interaction tenet of the socioecological model between the built environment and social cognition to predict PA.
methodsEligible studies had to have been published in peer-reviewed journals in the English language, and included any tests of interaction between social cognition and the built environment with PA. Literature searches, concluded in October 2017, used five common databases. Findings were grouped by type of PA outcomes (leisure, transportation, total PA and total moderate-vigorous PA [MVPA]), then grouped by the type of interactions between social cognitive and built environment constructs.
resultsThe initial search yielded 308 hits, which was reduced to 22 independent studies of primarily high- to medium-quality after screening for eligibility criteria. The interaction tenet of the socioecological model was not supported for overall MVPA and total PA. By contrast, while there was heterogeneity of findings for leisure-time PA, environmental accessibility/convenience interacted with intention, and environmental aesthetics interacted with affective judgments, to predict leisure-time PA. Interactions between the built environment and social cognition in PA for transport are limited, with current results failing to support an effect.
conclusionsThe results provide some support for interactive aspects of the built environment and social cognition in leisure-time PA, and thus highlight potential areas for integrated intervention of individual and environmental change.
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