Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 1 · Licensed source edition
Parent’s sociodemographic factors, physical activity and active commuting are predictors of independent mobility to school
Originally published 2021-06-06 · International Journal of Health Geographics
BMC · DOI 10.1186/s12942-021-00280-2 ↗
Editorial reading guide · Independence
How might the way adults in our household travel shape my child’s options?
This article examines which family and travel characteristics accompany independent trips to school. Here independence concerns permission to take an actual journey or play without direct supervision, within the conditions of a particular place.
Who was studied?
Parent–child pairs in Granada, Spain, and Valparaíso, Chile.
Age / stage: School age
Read with three questions
- What does the article establish about which family and travel characteristics accompany independent trips to school?
- Whose perspective was recorded, and what might an independent observer have described differently?
- How closely does the population described here match the family or setting you have in mind? The population to compare is parent–child pairs in Granada, Spain, and Valparaíso, Chile.
Keep the limits in view
The measures reflect what respondents reported. Associations alone cannot distinguish the direction of influence or exclude other explanations.
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F. Rodríguez-Rodríguez; P. Gálvez-Fernández; F. J. Huertas-Delgado; M. J. Aranda-Balboa; R. G. Saucedo-Araujo; M. Herrador-Colmenero (2021). Parent’s sociodemographic factors, physical activity and active commuting are predictors of independent mobility to school International Journal of Health Geographics. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12942-021-00280-2
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