Bibliographic record
Abstract
PURPOSE: Statistics from the Canadian General Social Survey (1998) indicated that active children generally had supportive families. While most studies have adopted a child's perspective, limited research has examined a mother's belief in their potential to influence their child's physical activity. The first purpose of the present study was to qualitatively examine the role of mothers in influencing their children's levels of physical activity. The second purpose was to examine whether having a child influenced a woman's philosophy on exercise and reasons for participating. The final purpose of the study was to evaluate whether the previous two issues were differentially affected by the sex of the child. METHODS: A phenomenological approach was used to understand the lived experiences of five physically active women and their perceptions about influencing their children's physical activity levels. The participants ranged in age from 39–49 years. Four of the participants had two children and one of the participants had three children (aged 10–17 years). A background questionnaire was administerd by telephone and a physical activity journal was recorded by the participants for both mothers and children. The participants also participated in face-to-face semi-structured taped interviews which probed for issues relevant to the purpose of the study. The data from the interviews was transcribed, analyzed, and coded using grounded theory. Themes within the data were identified. RESULTS: Five general trends emerged. All participants believed that they exerted a significant influence on their children's physical activity patterns by providing a supportive environment and demonstrating activity to be an essential life skill. Mothers indicated that they reaped the benefits of activity by spending time with their children. They also acknowledged how their goals have changed by having children and that the computer posed a significant challenge to motivating their children to be active. CONCLUSIONS: This study revealed the importance that physically active mothers placed in affecting their children's activity choices. Physically active mothers believed that they exerted a significant influence on their children's participation in physical activity. In light of the current childhood obesity epidemic, the present study suggested that successful interventions geared toward childhood behavioral changes must target parents first. Once mothers internalize and accept an active health philosophy for both themselves and their children, they will provide the support and encouragement necessary for their children to follow.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.390 | 0.237 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".