The next step in health behavior research
Background: The ecological perspective holds that human behavior depends on the interaction of different environmental factors and personal characteristics, but it lacks validation and operationalization. In the current paper, an…
Playability of school-environments and after-school physical activity among 8–11 year-old children
Background: Physical Activity (PA) occurs in several behavioral domains (e.g., sports, active transport), and is affected by distinct environmental factors. By filtering objective PA using children’s school schedules, daily PA can…
General parenting, childhood overweight and obesity-inducing behaviors
Despite emerging efforts to investigate the influence parents have on their children’s weight status and related dietary and activity behaviors, reviews regarding the role of general parenting are lacking. We…
Moderators of the longitudinal relationship between the perceived physical environment and outside play in children
Objectives: Promoting unstructured outside play is a promising vehicle to increase children's physical activity (PA). This study investigates if factors of the social environment moderate the relationship between the perceived…
De invloed van het kinderdagverblijf op voeding en beweging
Uit onderzoek van de Universiteit Maastricht blijkt dat kinderdagverblijfmedewerkers invloed kunnen hebben op wat kinderen eten en hoe veel ze bewegen. Ze kunnen ook ouders stimuleren om thuis gezond gedrag…