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| Title |
An intergenerational study of perceptions of changes in active free play among families from rural areas of Western Canada
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| Published in |
BMC Public Health, August 2016
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12889-016-3490-2 |
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| Authors |
Nicholas L. Holt, Kacey C. Neely, John C. Spence, Valerie Carson, Shannon R. Pynn, Kassi A. Boyd, Meghan Ingstrup, Zac Robinson |
| Abstract |
Children's engagement in active free play has declined across recent generations. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine perceptions of intergenerational changes in active free play among families from rural areas. We addressed two research questions: (1) How has active free play changed across three generations? (2) What suggestions do participants have for reviving active free play? Data were collected via 49 individual interviews with members of 16 families (15 grandparents, 16 parents, and 18 children) residing in rural areas/small towns in the Province of Alberta (Canada). Interview recordings were transcribed verbatim and subjected to thematic analysis guided by an ecological framework of active free play. Factors that depicted the changing nature of active free play were coded in the themes of less imagination/more technology, safety concerns, surveillance, other children to play with, purposeful physical activity, play spaces/organized activities, and the good parenting ideal. Suggestions for reviving active free play were coded in the themes of enhance facilities to keep kids entertained, provide more opportunities for supervised play, create more community events, and decrease use of technology. These results reinforce the need to consider multiple levels of social ecology in the study of active free play, and highlight the importance of community-based initiatives to revive active free play in ways that are consistent with contemporary notions of good parenting. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Denmark | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 103 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 103 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 14% |
| Researcher | 12 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 9 | 9% |
| Other | 8 | 8% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 8% |
| Other | 20 | 19% |
| Unknown | 32 | 31% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Social Sciences | 15 | 15% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 11 | 11% |
| Sports and Recreations | 10 | 10% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 8 | 8% |
| Psychology | 6 | 6% |
| Other | 17 | 17% |
| Unknown | 36 | 35% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 March 2024.
All research outputs
#4,659,999
of 25,542,788 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#5,549
of 17,686 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#73,063
of 355,531 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#139
of 415 outputs
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