Predisposed to participate? The influence of family socio-economic background on children's sports participation and daily amount of physical activity

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T1 - Predisposed to participate? The influence of family socio-economic background on children's sports participation and daily amount of physical activity

AU - Nielsen, Glen

AU - Grønfeldt, Vivian

AU - Støckel, Jan Toftegaard

AU - Andersen, Lars Bo

N1 - CURIS 2012 5200 029

PY - 2012/1

Y1 - 2012/1

N2 - From a Bourdieu-inspired understanding of how personal resources ('capitals') enable certain practices in certain contexts, the links between families' cultural, social and economic capitals, and children's daily physical activity were investigated in 500 suburban Danish schoolchildren using questionnaire data and accelerometer measures. Family socio-economic position (SEP) was found to be positively associated with children's participation in organized sport, which could be explained by differences in family capitals. By contrast, this study found no relationship between families' SEP and the amounts of general physical activity in children. This reflected the tendencies for club-organized sport to contribute a relatively small amount to the overall amount of physical activity in children, and for children of low SEP to be equally active in other settings such as school-breaks, day care and neighbourhood playgrounds.

AB - From a Bourdieu-inspired understanding of how personal resources ('capitals') enable certain practices in certain contexts, the links between families' cultural, social and economic capitals, and children's daily physical activity were investigated in 500 suburban Danish schoolchildren using questionnaire data and accelerometer measures. Family socio-economic position (SEP) was found to be positively associated with children's participation in organized sport, which could be explained by differences in family capitals. By contrast, this study found no relationship between families' SEP and the amounts of general physical activity in children. This reflected the tendencies for club-organized sport to contribute a relatively small amount to the overall amount of physical activity in children, and for children of low SEP to be equally active in other settings such as school-breaks, day care and neighbourhood playgrounds.

U2 - 10.1080/03031853.2011.625271

DO - 10.1080/03031853.2011.625271

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1743-0437

VL - 15

SP - 1

EP - 27

JO - Sport in Society

JF - Sport in Society

IS - 1

ER -