To browse Academia. The European Journal of Sports Medicine serves as a platform for disseminating research related to sports medicine, including original studies, reviews, case reports, and various scholarly articles. Highlighting the significance of comprehensive interventions in promoting physical activity, the journal underscores the positive impacts such strategies have on reducing obesity risk and enhancing overall health.
It emphasizes a socio-ecological approach, revealing that factors such as social support and environmental accessibility play crucial roles in active lifestyle adoption. The purpose of the present longitudinal study was to examine factors which influence socialisation into physical activity with increasing age. The socialisation framework, following the model of , was hypothesised to explain and predict physical activity over a 6-year period.
Type A behaviour, sociodemographics and anthropometric measurements were carried out in Structural equation modelling by LISREL showed that personal attributes responsible harddriving and sum of skinfolds were the best predictors for physical activity among year-old children. The effects of responsible hard-driving upon the physical activity was also most important among year-old adolescents.
Physical activity in childhood and adolescence predicted adult physical activity in four age-gender groups. Significant other fathers' physical activity directly or indirectly affected children's present and later physical activity in certain age-gender groups, while socialisation situations fathers' education and living environment only affected fathers' physical activity.
The overall fit of the model to the data was satisfactory for each of the age-gender groups. In general, the models suggest that psychological factors become more important in physical activity with increasing age. Reference lists of all relevant systematic reviews, guidelines and primary studies were followed up.
