Exploring children's perceptions of their local environment in relation to time spent outside
Hayball, Felicity and McCrorie, Paul and Kirk, Alison and Gibson, Ann-Marie and Ellaway, Anne (2018) Exploring children's perceptions of their local environment in relation to time spent outside. Children and Society, 32 (1). 14–26. ISSN 0951-0605 (https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12217)
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Abstract
This study aims to understand how children perceive their environment, exploring the affordances children perceive to influence their physical activity (PA) behaviour when outside. Participants included boys and girls aged 10-12 years (n = 15) living in Scotland. Children's visual and verbal representations of their perceived environment were analysed to assess environmental determinants of PA. The findings suggested that physical affordances that offer a sense of risk were important to children's play spaces. Social affordances influenced where the children went in their environment and the features they utilised as part of play behaviour; strangers were considered threatening depending on whether the activity was recognised.
ORCID iDs
Hayball, Felicity, McCrorie, Paul, Kirk, Alison ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6534-3763, Gibson, Ann-Marie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2516-7985 and Ellaway, Anne;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 60518 Dates: DateEvent30 January 2018Published19 March 2017Published Online3 February 2017AcceptedSubjects: Medicine > Pediatrics > Child Health. Child health services
Medicine > Public aspects of medicine > Personal health and hygiene, including exercise, nutritionDepartment: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Psychological Sciences and Health > Physical Activity for Health
Strategic Research Themes > Health and WellbeingDepositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 25 Apr 2017 08:32 Last modified: 02 Dec 2024 01:18 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/60518