Presentation Type
Poster
Start Date
5-8-2024 11:00 AM
End Date
5-8-2024 1:00 PM
Subjects
Pedestrian safety, Parental influence
Advisor
Jennifer Dill
Student Level
Doctoral
Abstract
Researchers have studied children's active travel; however, they have mostly been cross-sectional studies dealing with commuting to school and parental attitudes. To find ways to promote children's active travel, this longitudinal study uses panel data (two time periods) to examine how parents' actual walking and safety perception correlated with children’s walking. Using data from 240 children aged 4-16 and their parents in Portland, Oregon, we estimated a cross-lagged panel model (CLPM) to analyze the continuous relationships. We found that parents with more positive attitudes toward their walking walked more, and their children also walked more in both periods. In addition, parents' perceptions of safety regarding their children's walking environment in terms of strangers and traffic significantly affected children's walking. Children’s safety perception and time-related perceived behavior control affected their attitude toward walking but not walking time. Moreover, previous children’s walking behavior can alleviate the subsequent negative perception of the time barrier of walking. This study is meaningful in finding the relationships between the attitudes and behaviors of parents’ and children's walking based on repeated observations. Given our results, neighborhoods that are good for parents to walk in affect children’s walking. Parental walking needs to precede for encouraging continuous children’s walking.
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Under The Influence Of Parents: A Longitudinal Study Of Children’s Walking
Researchers have studied children's active travel; however, they have mostly been cross-sectional studies dealing with commuting to school and parental attitudes. To find ways to promote children's active travel, this longitudinal study uses panel data (two time periods) to examine how parents' actual walking and safety perception correlated with children’s walking. Using data from 240 children aged 4-16 and their parents in Portland, Oregon, we estimated a cross-lagged panel model (CLPM) to analyze the continuous relationships. We found that parents with more positive attitudes toward their walking walked more, and their children also walked more in both periods. In addition, parents' perceptions of safety regarding their children's walking environment in terms of strangers and traffic significantly affected children's walking. Children’s safety perception and time-related perceived behavior control affected their attitude toward walking but not walking time. Moreover, previous children’s walking behavior can alleviate the subsequent negative perception of the time barrier of walking. This study is meaningful in finding the relationships between the attitudes and behaviors of parents’ and children's walking based on repeated observations. Given our results, neighborhoods that are good for parents to walk in affect children’s walking. Parental walking needs to precede for encouraging continuous children’s walking.