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Effects of Kindergarten, Family Environment, and Physical Activity on Children's Physical Fitness

To explore the relationship between kindergarten environmental factors, children's physical activity, and physical fitness, this study uses the stratified random sampling method to obtain 4,600 children in relevant kindergartens. The questionnaire survey and children's physical fitness tes...

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Autores principales: Huang, Wenyan, Luo, Jiong, Chen, Yanmei
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9226412/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35757641
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.904903
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description To explore the relationship between kindergarten environmental factors, children's physical activity, and physical fitness, this study uses the stratified random sampling method to obtain 4,600 children in relevant kindergartens. The questionnaire survey and children's physical fitness test were completed with the help of parents and kindergarten staff. The exploratory (EFA) and confirmatory (CFA) factor analysis is used to process the obtained database and set the significance level of all indicators α = 0.05. The results show that kindergarten environmental factors significantly affect children's physical activity and healthy physical fitness. Children with large play areas in these kindergartens, more sports equipment items, who participate in more than three games per week, of no <40 min of each class, with an appropriate number of classes, and excellent teachers' teaching ability have better physical fitness. Family environmental factors significantly affect children's physical activity and fitness. Children with more family sports equipment items, more peers living nearby, safer playing places, more hands and feet, and parents who are good at sports have better performance in health fitness. Children's physical activity not only directly affects their performance of physical fitness, but also plays a dual intermediary role between kindergarten environment and physical fitness, family environment, and healthy physical fitness.
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spelling pubmed-92264122022-06-25 Effects of Kindergarten, Family Environment, and Physical Activity on Children's Physical Fitness Huang, Wenyan Luo, Jiong Chen, Yanmei Front Public Health Public Health To explore the relationship between kindergarten environmental factors, children's physical activity, and physical fitness, this study uses the stratified random sampling method to obtain 4,600 children in relevant kindergartens. The questionnaire survey and children's physical fitness test were completed with the help of parents and kindergarten staff. The exploratory (EFA) and confirmatory (CFA) factor analysis is used to process the obtained database and set the significance level of all indicators α = 0.05. The results show that kindergarten environmental factors significantly affect children's physical activity and healthy physical fitness. Children with large play areas in these kindergartens, more sports equipment items, who participate in more than three games per week, of no <40 min of each class, with an appropriate number of classes, and excellent teachers' teaching ability have better physical fitness. Family environmental factors significantly affect children's physical activity and fitness. Children with more family sports equipment items, more peers living nearby, safer playing places, more hands and feet, and parents who are good at sports have better performance in health fitness. Children's physical activity not only directly affects their performance of physical fitness, but also plays a dual intermediary role between kindergarten environment and physical fitness, family environment, and healthy physical fitness. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-06-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9226412/ /pubmed/35757641 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.904903 Text en Copyright © 2022 Huang, Luo and Chen. 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.
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Huang, Wenyan
Luo, Jiong
Chen, Yanmei
Effects of Kindergarten, Family Environment, and Physical Activity on Children's Physical Fitness
title Effects of Kindergarten, Family Environment, and Physical Activity on Children's Physical Fitness
title_full Effects of Kindergarten, Family Environment, and Physical Activity on Children's Physical Fitness
title_fullStr Effects of Kindergarten, Family Environment, and Physical Activity on Children's Physical Fitness
title_full_unstemmed Effects of Kindergarten, Family Environment, and Physical Activity on Children's Physical Fitness
title_short Effects of Kindergarten, Family Environment, and Physical Activity on Children's Physical Fitness
title_sort effects of kindergarten, family environment, and physical activity on children's physical fitness
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9226412/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35757641
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.904903
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