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Parents' Physical Activity, Socioeconomic Status and Education as Predictors of Physical Activity and Sport among Children and Youths - A 12-Year Follow-Up Study

Xiao Lin Yang

LIKES Research Center, PL 35, 40351 Jyväskylä 10 / Finland

Risto Telama

Department of Physical Education, University of Jyväskylä / Finland

Lauri Laakso

Department of Physical Education, University of Jyväskylä / Finland

The purpose of this study was to examine parental influences on children's participation in sport and their later physical activity. The population for the study consisted of a random sample of 1881 9- to 15-year-old boys and girls who were exposed to the extensive research program called "Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns" in 1980. They and their parents have been followed up for twelve years at three-year intervals by means of a short questionnaire concerning physical activity and other factors. The results indicated that the fathers' physical activity in 1980 was related to their children's habitual physical activity in the same year, and gave in boys and girls a significant prediction of PAI values twelve years later when the starting point was the age of 9, and also among boys from 15 years of age to 27. During the three years follow-up period, the extent of participation in sport was higher in families with active parents than in families with passive parents and single parents. The relationship of physical activity and sports participation with fathers' socioeconomic status and education was not so strong as with fathers' physical activity.

Key Words: children • youths • parents' background • sports club • physical activity • follow-up

International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Vol. 31, No. 3, 273-291 (1996)
DOI: 10.1177/101269029603100304
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