Does active commuting help Czech adolescents meet health recommendations for physical activity?

Vorlíček, Michal; Mitáš, Lukáš Rubín Jan Dygrýn Josef

doi:10.5507/tk.2017.005

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“…In addition, the findings of Vorlíček et al [17,18] on a sample of Czech adolescents indicate that there might be room for targeted intervention based on the social norms approach to increase the PA of adolescents or at least strengthen their actual positive behaviour.…”

Section: If Widespread Participation Indicates Social Acceptability I...mentioning

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How Czech Adolescents Perceive Their Physical Activity

Salonna¹,

Vorlíček²,

Mitáš³

et al. 2023

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Our study points out that there is a discrepancy between the self-perceived levels of own MVPA and VPA and the perceived descriptive norms of peers’ MVPA and VPA. Adolescents underestimate the prevalence of sufficient MVPA and VPA, and thus perceived descriptive norms in MVPA and VPA are worse than levels of own MVPA and VPA. These findings indicate room for targeted intervention based on the social norms based approaches to increase the physical activity of adolescents or at least strengthen their actual positive behaviour.

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Section: If Widespread Participation Indicates Social Acceptability I...mentioning

confidence: 99%

How Czech Adolescents Perceive Their Physical Activity

Salonna¹,

Vorlíček²,

Mitáš³

et al. 2023

Preprint

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“…One of the ways to contribute to obtaining this amount of PA is through active commuting (AC) to/from school [12][13][14][15][16][17]. Previous findings have confirmed that AC to school contributed to the successful achievement of health recommendations for PA in Czech adolescents [18].…”

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How Czech Adolescents Perceive Active Commuting to School: A Cross-Sectional Study

Vorlíček

Baďura

Mitáš

et al. 2020

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To achieve a healthy lifestyle, adolescents must be physically active and meet physical activity (PA) guidelines. One of the most natural ways of increasing the amount of PA is active commuting (AC) to school. Recent reviews suggest that peer norms have the potential to shape PA during adolescence in particular. Thus, our primary aim was to investigate whether Czech adolescents misperceive their peers’ AC behaviors and attitudes towards AC. Our dataset comprised cross-sectional data on 1586 adolescents aged 11–15 years. Basic descriptive statistics, chi-square tests, and correlation analyses were used to analyze the data. Regarding traveling to school, 68% of the Czech adolescents in this study are daily active commuters (walking, cycling, or riding a scooter or skateboard). Less than half of the respondents believed that most of their classmates were commuting to school actively almost daily. The students who believed that most of their classmates commuted to school actively had significantly higher chances of being regular active commuters themselves. The results showed that most of the Czech adolescents misperceived the AC norms of their peers. Thus, there could be potential in using a social norms approach aimed at increasing the level of AC in Czech adolescents through targeted interventions.

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