TY - JOUR
T1 - Patterns of Chinese adolescents’ activity preferences
T2 - Predictors and associations with time spent on physical and sedentary activities
AU - Ma, Zhuanzhuan
AU - He, Jinbo
AU - Lu, Tom
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: This research was partially supported by the Presidential Fund of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, to Jinbo He (Grant Number: PF.01.001428).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2021/5
Y1 - 2021/5
N2 - The purpose of this study was to explore the patterns of Chinese adolescents’ activity preferences as well as the predictors and associations with the actual time spent on physical and sedentary activities. With the data set derived from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), latent class analysis (LCA) was employed to analyze data of 501 adolescents in the age range of 12–17 years old. The results showed that three distinct groups of activity preferences were identified: like all (21.6%, n = 108), like media more than sports (52.9%, n = 265), and like none (25.5%, n = 128). Major predictors for activity preferences included residence, sleeping hours, dietary knowledge, and life attitudes. The results revealed that adolescents in different patterns had statistically significant differences in the weekly participating time on physical activities (e.g. martial arts, track and field/running/swimming, walking, soccer/basketball/tennis, badminton/volleyball, and other/ping pong/Tai Chi) as well as sedentary activities (e.g. watching TV, watching movies and videos online, surfing internet, chatting online, playing computer/smartphone games, doing homework, playing toy cars/puppets/board games, engaging in extracurricular reading/writing/drawing) among the three latent classes. Implications and future research directions are discussed.
AB - The purpose of this study was to explore the patterns of Chinese adolescents’ activity preferences as well as the predictors and associations with the actual time spent on physical and sedentary activities. With the data set derived from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), latent class analysis (LCA) was employed to analyze data of 501 adolescents in the age range of 12–17 years old. The results showed that three distinct groups of activity preferences were identified: like all (21.6%, n = 108), like media more than sports (52.9%, n = 265), and like none (25.5%, n = 128). Major predictors for activity preferences included residence, sleeping hours, dietary knowledge, and life attitudes. The results revealed that adolescents in different patterns had statistically significant differences in the weekly participating time on physical activities (e.g. martial arts, track and field/running/swimming, walking, soccer/basketball/tennis, badminton/volleyball, and other/ping pong/Tai Chi) as well as sedentary activities (e.g. watching TV, watching movies and videos online, surfing internet, chatting online, playing computer/smartphone games, doing homework, playing toy cars/puppets/board games, engaging in extracurricular reading/writing/drawing) among the three latent classes. Implications and future research directions are discussed.
KW - Activity preferences
KW - Chinese adolescents
KW - Latent class analysis
KW - Physical activities
KW - Sedentary activities
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U2 - 10.1016/j.childyouth.2021.105971
DO - 10.1016/j.childyouth.2021.105971
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85102279845
VL - 124
JO - Children and Youth Services Review
JF - Children and Youth Services Review
SN - 0190-7409
M1 - 105971
ER -