Phipps Daniel J, Green Weldon T, Lintunen Taru, Knittle Keegan, Hagger Martin S
Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland.
School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
Int J Behav Med. 2025 Feb 19. doi: 10.1007/s12529-025-10358-x.
Health behaviors and motives within family units are likely to be associated with the motives and behaviors of other family members. A potential mechanism for these relations is that parents citing autonomous motives toward physical activity are more likely to support their child's autonomous motivation to be active. The current study tested a model specifying relations between parent autonomous motivation and parent, child, and parent-and-child joint physical activity behavior with parent autonomy-supportive parenting, child-perceived autonomy support, and child autonomous motivation specified as mediators of the autonomous motivation-child physical activity relationship.
Data on autonomous motivation, autonomy-supportive parenting, perceived autonomy support, and physical activity, both alone and jointly between parents and children, were collected from a sample of 88 Finnish parent-child dyads and analyzed using a partial least squares structural equation modeling.
Findings indicated associations between parent autonomous motivation and parent and joint parent-child physical activity, and an indirect effect of autonomy-supportive parenting on child physical activity mediated by child-perceived autonomy support and autonomous motivation.
Results provide a potential explanation for relations between parental motives and child physical activity as a function of supportive parenting and signpost potential targets for family-based behavior change interventions.
家庭单位内的健康行为和动机可能与其他家庭成员的动机和行为相关。这些关系的一个潜在机制是，父母对体育活动表现出自主动机时，更有可能支持孩子积极参与体育活动的自主动机。本研究测试了一个模型，该模型规定了父母自主动机与父母、孩子以及亲子共同体育活动行为之间的关系，其中父母自主性支持型养育方式、孩子感知到的自主性支持以及孩子自主动机被指定为自主动机与孩子体育活动关系的中介变量。
从88对芬兰亲子二元组样本中收集了关于自主动机、自主性支持型养育方式、感知到的自主性支持以及体育活动（包括父母和孩子单独及共同进行的体育活动）的数据，并使用偏最小二乘结构方程模型进行分析。
研究结果表明，父母自主动机与父母及亲子共同体育活动之间存在关联，并且自主性支持型养育方式通过孩子感知到的自主性支持和自主动机对孩子体育活动产生间接影响。
研究结果为父母动机与孩子体育活动之间的关系提供了一个潜在解释，即这种关系是支持性养育方式的作用结果，并为基于家庭的行为改变干预指明了潜在目标。
