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Table 3 Linear regression models examining factors related to child outside play at age seven (min/day)

From: A longitudinal study of children’s outside play using family environment and perceived physical environment as predictors

 

Model 1

Model 2

Model 3

Model 4

 

beta (95%CI)

beta (95%CI)

beta (95%CI)

beta (95%CI)

n

1994

1390

1968

1363

Socio-demographics

    

Child age at baseline

7.98 (0.88 to 15.09)

  

4.65 (−3.50 to 12.79)

Child gender; boy

8.51 (2.68 to 14.34)

  

6.36 (−0.20 to 12.93)

Child BMI

1.21 (−0.79 to 3.21)

  

1.72 (−0.72 to 4.16)

Parental age at baseline

−0.85 (−1.55 to −0.15)

  

−0.41 (−1.23 to 0.41)

Parental education level

    

Low

reference

  

reference

Mid-low

17.59 (−2.34 to 37.52)

  

8.87 (−19.62 to 37.35)

Mid-high

−1.73 (−20.66 to 17.20)

  

−8.25 (−35.67 to 19.17)

High

−19.50 (−38.58 to −0.41)

  

−26.63 (−54.10 to 0.84)

Family environment 1

    

Parental attitude (agree)

 

−3.80 (−7.97 to 0.37)

 

−3.97 (−8.08 to 0.15)

Family attitude (agree)

 

−3.22 (−7.57 to 1.13)

 

−2.87 (−7.19 to 1.45)

Perceived difficulty (agree)

 

−24.44 (−35.81 to −13.06)

 

−22.11 (−33.41 to −10.81)

Habit strength (agree)

 

25.19 (15.72 to 34.67)

 

23.99 (14.61 to 33.36)

Intention to improve (agree)

 

−1.12 (−8.84 to 6.60)

 

−2.88 (−10.57 to 4.81)

Presence of rules

 

21.49 (14.28 to 28.69)

 

16.46 (9.26 to 23.67)

Presence of monitoring

 

2.97 (−5.83 to 11.78)

 

5.30 (−3.42 to 14.02)

Presence of active encouragement

 

−10.82 (−19.25 to −2.39)

 

−8.91 (−17.33 to −0.48)

Child autonomy (agree)

 

5.48 (−3.95 to 14.90)

 

4.80 (−4.59 to 14.19)

Modelling parent (#days physically active)

 

0.50 (−1.21 to 2.20)

 

0.45 (−1.24 to 2.15)

Modelling partner (#days physically active)

 

1.49 (−0.07 to 3.05)

 

1.85 (0.27 to 3.42)

Modelling siblings (#days physically active)

 

1.06 (−1.18 to 3.30)

 

1.27 (−0.99 to 3.52)

Perceived physical environment 1

    

Safety perception during daytime (agree)

  

−3.57 (−13.24 to 6.10)

2.88 (−8.03 to 13.79)

Safety perception during evenings (agree)

  

8.68 (1.18 to 16.19)

3.54 (−4.68 to 11.76)

Friendliness for children (agree)

  

4.63 (−7.31 to 16.57)

−5.57 (−18.66 to 7.72)

Attractiveness for children (agree)

  

4.88 (−5.89 to 15.64)

3.21 (−8.62 to 15.05)

Safety of outside play without supervision (agree)

  

3.93 (−3.57 to 11.43)

0.12 (−8.22 to 8.47)

R-square2

0.10

0.15

0.06

0.20

  1. 1For details on the measures used see Additional file 1: Table S1.
  2. 2R square statistic represents the level of variance explained by the general linear model.
  3. Note: numbers printed bold represent a statistically significant (p < .05) association between the predictor and child outside play at five years old.