Research Article
Parental Influence on Young Children's Physical Activity
Table 2
Multinomial logistic regression predicting parents’ perception of their child PA intensity level.
| | Highly Active | Moderately Active | |
| | Predictors | | | | | | | Chi-Square | | Beta (SE) | Wald | Odds Ratio | Beta (SE) | Wald | Odds Ratio | |
| | Child Age (months) | −.113 (.038) | 8.73 | .893 | .079 (.023) | 11.39 | .924 | | | Child Gender (male) | .676 (.772) | .767 | 1.967 | .116 (.516) | .050 | 1.123 | | | Linguistic Group (French) | .325 (.747) | .190 | 1.384 | .204 (.532) | .147 | 1.226 | | | TV Time (1 hr or less/day) | .303 (.749) | .163 | 1.354 | −.283 (.523) | .420 | 1.404 | | | Child At-risk of Overweight/Overweight | −.064 (.798) | .006 | .938 | .339 (.565) | .251 | .754 | 20.3 | | Parent Age (years) | −.266 (.095) | 7.81 | .766 | −0.19 (.038) | .252 | .981 | | | Married | .808 (.985) | .672 | 2.243 | .193 (.670) | .083 | 1.213 | | | Income 0–45K | .611 (1.205) | .257 | 1.842 | .134 (.764) | .031 | 1.144 | | | Income 45–75K | −.259 (1.052) | .061 | .772 | −.756 (.618) | 1.497 | .469 | | | Postsecondary Education | −1.486 (1.378) | 1.164 | .226 | −.165 (1.132) | 2.125 | .192 | 23.9 | | Parental Support for PA | 1.441 (.733) | 3.86 | 4.22 | .478 (.376) | 1.614 | 1.613 | | | Parental Enjoyment of PA | .458 (.548) | .699 | 1.58 | .080 (.300) | .071 | 1.083 | | | Parental PA Habits | .680 (.315) | 4.67 | 1.974 | .227 (.217) | 1.09 | 1.255 | | | Importance of Child’s PA Ability | −.145 (.306) | .225 | .865 | .066 (.228) | .085 | 1.069 | 19.56 |
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