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Neighborhood Walking and Social Connectedness
Neighborhood social ties matter crucially, especially during stressful life events like a global pandemic, for they represent vital sources of wellbeing and community capacity. Activities that enable community members to engage in incidental sociability and acts of “neighboring”—that is, authentic s...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9062734/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35520097 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2022.825224 |
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description | Neighborhood social ties matter crucially, especially during stressful life events like a global pandemic, for they represent vital sources of wellbeing and community capacity. Activities that enable community members to engage in incidental sociability and acts of “neighboring”—that is, authentic social interactions with their neighbors—warrant attention from sport and active living researchers because of their potential to bolster the social fabric of our neighborhoods and facilitate neighbors' access to important resources, such as information, material resources, and social support. Though perhaps dismissed as trivial, neighborhood walking represents a valuable and underappreciated everyday activity that fits this description, especially in an age characterized by an epidemic of social isolation and loneliness. Despite its vast potential to address the quasi-anonymity of urban life, neighborhood walking remains surprisingly underexamined as a facilitator for fostering social connectedness, the sense of connection and social bond people feel toward others. The goal of this manuscript, therefore, is to establish the conceptual grounding for how neighborhood walking strengthens social ties among neighbors to facilitate access to important coping resources. In doing so, it aims to advance a research agenda on walking that moves beyond the benefits of physical activity. |
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spelling | pubmed-90627342022-05-04 Neighborhood Walking and Social Connectedness Glover, Troy D. Todd, Joe Moyer, Luke Front Sports Act Living Sports and Active Living Neighborhood social ties matter crucially, especially during stressful life events like a global pandemic, for they represent vital sources of wellbeing and community capacity. Activities that enable community members to engage in incidental sociability and acts of “neighboring”—that is, authentic social interactions with their neighbors—warrant attention from sport and active living researchers because of their potential to bolster the social fabric of our neighborhoods and facilitate neighbors' access to important resources, such as information, material resources, and social support. Though perhaps dismissed as trivial, neighborhood walking represents a valuable and underappreciated everyday activity that fits this description, especially in an age characterized by an epidemic of social isolation and loneliness. Despite its vast potential to address the quasi-anonymity of urban life, neighborhood walking remains surprisingly underexamined as a facilitator for fostering social connectedness, the sense of connection and social bond people feel toward others. The goal of this manuscript, therefore, is to establish the conceptual grounding for how neighborhood walking strengthens social ties among neighbors to facilitate access to important coping resources. In doing so, it aims to advance a research agenda on walking that moves beyond the benefits of physical activity. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-04-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9062734/ /pubmed/35520097 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2022.825224 Text en Copyright © 2022 Glover, Todd and Moyer. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Sports and Active Living Glover, Troy D. Todd, Joe Moyer, Luke Neighborhood Walking and Social Connectedness |
title | Neighborhood Walking and Social Connectedness |
title_full | Neighborhood Walking and Social Connectedness |
title_fullStr | Neighborhood Walking and Social Connectedness |
title_full_unstemmed | Neighborhood Walking and Social Connectedness |
title_short | Neighborhood Walking and Social Connectedness |
title_sort | neighborhood walking and social connectedness |
topic | Sports and Active Living |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9062734/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35520097 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2022.825224 |
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