Physical activity: a family affair
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Discover the impact of family on a child’s physical activity levels with this free course. Explore key psycho-social factors and learn about parental involvement, gender stereotypes, and more. Enhance your understanding of family influence and support children’s participation in sports.
This free course, Physical activity: a family affair, aims to explore the effects that the family has on the amount and nature of physical activity a child participates in. The beliefs and behaviours of the family environment are the key psycho-social factors we investigate here.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
Summarise the main research evidence of family influence on a child’s level of physical activity participation
Relate expectancy-value theory (Eccles, 1993
Eccles et al., 1983) to parental involvement in children’s sporting experience
Understand how gender and parental gender stereotypes may affect parents’ support of children’s participation in sport.
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