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

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/46747885:24510/20:00008083

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/15/5562/htm" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/15/5562/htm</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17155562" target="_blank" >10.3390/ijerph17155562</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

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

Original language description

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.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30306 - Sport and fitness sciences

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA17-24378S" target="_blank" >GA17-24378S: Social Norms Intervention in the prevention of excessive sitting and physical activity promotion among Czech adolescents</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

ISSN

1661-7827

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

17

Issue of the periodical within the volume

15

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

5562-5571

UT code for WoS article

000559001500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85088915112