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Table 2 Linear regression models examining factors related to child outside play at age five (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

1940

1390

1968

1337

Socio-demographics

    

Child age at baseline

14.42 (6.71 to 22.14)

  

13.61 (5.13 to 22.08)

Child gender; boy

6.52 (1.12 to 11.91)

  

4.07 (−1.79 to 9.93)

Child ethnic background; Dutch

1.79 (−11.99 to 15.57)

  

−4.45 (−20.26 to 11.36)

Child BMI

2.11 (0.25 to 3.96)

  

2.00 (−0.22 to 4.21)

Parental age at baseline

−0.62 (−1.28 to 0.03)

  

−0.33 (−1.08 to 0.42)

Parental ethnic background; Dutch

22.94 (4.74 to 41.14)

  

11.34 (−11.12 to 33.80)

Parental BMI

0.26 (−0.08 to 0.60)

  

1.14 (0.26 to 2.02)

Parental education level

    

Low

reference

  

reference

Mid-low

15.61 (−7.34 to 38.55)

  

15.64 (−21.27 to 52.56)

Mid-high

7.82 (−14.40 to 30.04)

  

10.35 (−25.97 to 46.67)

High

−3.90 (−26.26 to 18.46)

  

−2.04 (−38.45 to 34.37)

Family environment 1

    

Parental attitude (agree)

 

−4.32 (−8.01 to −0.63)

 

−3.78 (−7.46 to −0.10)

Family attitude (agree)

 

−2.30 (−6.15 to 1.55)

 

−2.41 (−6.27 to 1.46)

Perceived difficulty (agree)

 

−18.06 (−28.12 to −8.00)

 

−16.33 (−26.41 to −6.26)

Habit strength (agree)

 

33.89 (25.52 to 42.75)

 

33.41 (25.05 to 41.77)

Intention to improve (agree)

 

−10.81 (−17.64 to −3.98)

 

−12.83 (−19.73 to −5.92)

Presence of rules

 

23.98 (17.60 to 30.36)

 

19.87 (13.44 to 26.30)

Presence of monitoring

 

4.90 (−2.90 to 12.70)

 

4.87 (−2.97 to 12.71)

Presence of active encouragement

 

−5.26 (−12.71 to 2.19)

 

−3.00 (−10.48 to 4.48)

Child autonomy (agree)

 

12.16 (3.83 to 20.49)

 

11.66 (3.30 to 20.02)

Modelling parent (#days physically active)

 

0.88 (−0.63 to 2.39)

 

0.58 (−0.95 to 2.10)

Modelling partner (#days physically active)

 

0.39 (−0.99 to 1.78)

 

0.84 (−0.58 to 2.25)

Modelling siblings (#days physically active)

 

5.01 (3.02 to 6.99)

 

4.82 (2.81 to 6.83)

Perceived physical environment 1

    

Safety perception during daytime (agree)

  

−0.81 (−9.67 to 8.05)

0.20 (−9.54 to 9.94)

Safety perception during evenings (agree)

  

11.82 (4.89 to 18.74)

5.21 (−2.15 to 12.58)

Friendliness for children (agree)

  

4.43 (−6.52 to 15.37)

−2.63 (−14.53 to 9.27)

Attractiveness for children (agree)

  

0.84 (−9.03 to 10.72)

−2.79 (−13.43 to 7.85)

Safety of outside play without supervision (agree)

  

1.91 (−4.99 to 8.81)

−0.40 (−7.89 to 7.09)

R-square2

0.13

0.27

0.10

0.31

  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.