Gender Differences in the Daily Physical Activities of Danish School Children

Autor/inn/en	Nielsen, Glen; Pfister, Gertrud; Andersen, Lars Bo
Titel	Gender Differences in the Daily Physical Activities of Danish School Children
Quelle	In: European Physical Education Review, 17 (2011) 1, S.69-90 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1356-336X
DOI	10.1177/1356336X11402267
Schlagwörter	Physical Activities; After School Programs; Foreign Countries; Gender Differences; Child Care; Physical Activity Level; Children; Questionnaires; Measurement Equipment; Age Differences; Athletics; Preschool Children; Elementary School Students; Grade 3; Denmark + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? After school education; After-school programs; Program; Programs; Programme; Außerschulische Jugendbildung; Programm; Ausland; Geschlechterkonflikt; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Fragebogen; Messinstrument; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Leichtathletik; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; School year 03; 3. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 03; Dänemark
Abstract	The purpose of this study was to explore the daily physical activities of Danish children with a focus on describing and explaining gender differences. Accelerometer measurements of physical activity in different contexts, as well as questionnaire data, were collected from more than 500 children at pre-school and later at third grade. The study showed that boys were generally more physically active than girls (18% at age 6-7, and 16% at age 9-10, both p less than 0.001) and found differences in the types of activities undertaken by the two genders. These findings are in accordance with numerous other studies in Denmark as well as internationally. However, this study adds to this knowledge by showing that the gender difference in total amounts of activity was mainly due to large gender differences in the amounts of self-organized physical activity such as after-school day care (difference at age 6-7 = 45%, difference at age 9-10 = 58%, both p less than 0.001) and school breaks (difference at age 6-7 = 32%, difference at age 9-10 = 36%, both p less than 0.001). This could be partly explained by boys being more interested in playing football in contexts for children's self-organized activities. (Contains 17 notes, 4 tables and 11 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10