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Temperament is Associated with Outdoor Free Play in Young Children: A TARGetKids! Study
Julia R. Sharp, Jonathon L. Maguire, Sarah Carsley, Kawsari Abdullah, Yang Chen,Eliana M. Perrin, Patricia C. Parkin, Catherine S. Birken
PII: S1876-2859(17)30467-9
DOI: 10.1016/j.acap.2017.08.006
Reference: ACAP 1077
To appear in: Academic Pediatrics
Received Date: 9 March 2017
Revised Date: 4 August 2017
Accepted Date: 12 August 2017
Please cite this article as: Sharp JR, Maguire JL, Carsley S, Abdullah K, Chen Y, Perrin EM, ParkinPC, Birken CS, on behalf of the TARGet Kids! Collaboration, Temperament is Associated with OutdoorFree Play in Young Children: A TARGet Kids! Study, Academic Pediatrics (2017), doi: 10.1016/j.acap.2017.08.006.
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Temperament is Associated with Outdoor Free Play in Young Children: A TARGet Kids! Study
Julia R. Sharp,a Jonathon L. Maguire,b,c,d,e Sarah Carsley,b Kawsari Abdullah,b Yang Chen,c Eliana M. Perrin,f Patricia C. Parkinb,e and Catherine S. Birken,b,c,e,g on behalf of the TARGet
Kids! Collaboration†
Affiliations: aDepartment of Post-Graduate Medical Education, Sick Kids Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada; bPaediatric Outcomes Research Team, Sick Kids Hospital, Toronto, Canada; cThe Applied Health Research Centre of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada; dDepartment of Paediatrics, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada, eDepartment of Paediatrics, Sick Kids Hospital, Toronto, Canada, fDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Primary Care, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; gChild Health Evaluative Studies, Sick Kids Research Institute, Toronto, Canada
†TARGet Kids! Collaboration– Co-Leads: Catherine S. Birken, Jonathon L. Maguire; Advisory Committee: Eddy Lau, Andreas Laupacis, Patricia C. Parkin, Michael Salter, Peter Szatmari, Shannon Weir; Scientific Committee: Kawsari Abdullah, Mary Aglipay, Yamna Ali, Laura N. Anderson, Imaan Bayoumi, Catherine S. Birken, Cornelia M. Borkhoff, Sarah Carsley, Shiyi Chen, Yang Chen, David W.H. Dai, Denise Darmawikarta, Cindy-Lee Dennis, Karen Eny, Stephanie Erdle, Kayla Furlong, Kanthi Kavikondala, Christine Koroshegyi, Christine Kowal, Grace Jieun Lee, Jonathon L. Maguire, Dalah Mason, Jessica Omand, Patricia C. Parkin, Navindra Persaud, Lesley Plumptre, Meta van den Heuvel, Shelley Vanderhout, Peter Wong, Weeda Zabih; Site Investigators: Murtala Abdurrahman, Barbara Anderson, Kelly Anderson, Gordon Arbess, Jillian Baker, Tony Barozzino, Sylvie Bergeron, Dimple Bhagat, Nicholas Blanchette, Gary Bloch, Joey Bonifacio, Ashna Bowry, Anne Brown, Jennifer Bugera, Caroline Calpin, Douglas Campbell, Sohail Cheema, Elaine Cheng, Brian Chisamore, Evelyn Constantin, Erin Culbert, Karoon Danayan, Paul Das, Mary Beth Derocher, Anh Do, Michael Dorey, Kathleen Doukas, Anne Egger, Allison Farber, Amy Freedman, Sloane Freeman, Keewai Fung, Sharon Gazeley, Donna Goldenberg, Charlie Guiang, Dan Ha, Shuja Hafiz, Curtis Handford, Laura Hanson, Leah Harrington, Hailey Hatch, Teresa Hughes, Sheila Jacobson, Lukasz Jagiello, Gwen Jansz, Paul Kadar, Tara Kiran, Lauren Kitney, Holly Knowles, Bruce Kwok, Sheila Lakhoo, Margarita Lam-Antoniades, Eddy Lau, Fok-Han Leung, Alan Li, Patricia Li, Jennifer Loo, Joanne Louis, Sarah Mahmoud, Roy Male, Vashti Mascoll, Rosemary Moodie, Julia Morinis, Maya Nader, Sharon Naymark, Patricia Neelands, James Owen, Jane Parry, Michael Peer, Kifi Pena, Marty Perlmutar, Navindra Persaud, Andrew Pinto, Tracy Pitt, Michelle Porepa, Vikky Qi, Nasreen Ramji, Noor Ramji, Jesleen Rana, Alana Rosenthal, Katherine Rouleau, Janet Saunderson, Rahul Saxena, Vanna Schiralli, Michael Sgro, Susan Shepherd, Barbara Smiltnieks, Cinntha Srikanthan, Carolyn Taylor, Suzanne Turner, Fatima Uddin, Joanne Vaughan, Thea Weisdorf, Sheila Wijayasinghe, Peter Wong, Anne Wormsbecker, Ethel Ying, Elizabeth Young, Michael Zajdman; Research Team: Marivic Bustos, Charmaine Camacho, Dharma Dalwadi, Thivia Jegathesan, Tarandeep Malhi, Sharon Thadani, Julia Thompson, Laurie Thompson; Applied Health Research Centre: Christopher Allen, Bryan Boodhoo, Judith Hall, Peter Juni, Gerald Lebovic, Karen Pope, Jodi Shim, Kevin Thorpe; Mount Sinai Services Laboratory: Azar Azad.
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Address correspondence to: Julia R. Sharp c/o Catherine S. Birken Department of Paediatrics The Hospital for Sick Children, 686 Bay Street Toronto, ON M5G 0A4, Canada Phone:416-813-4930 E-mail: julia.sharp@mail.utoronto.ca Short Title: Preschoolers' Temperament and Outdoor Play Word Count: Main body: 2834 words Abstract: 235 words Funding Source: This work was supported by the Canadian Institute for Health Research, Sick Kids Foundation, St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation, and the Academic Pediatric Association through the Resident Investigator Award grant program. Funding agencies had no role in the design and conduct of the study, collection, management, analyses or interpretation of the results of this study or in the preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript Financial Disclosure: The authors have no financial relationships relevant to this article to disclose. Conflict of Interest: The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Abbreviations: CCHS: Canadian Community Health Survey. CBQ: Childhood Behavior Questionnaire. ECBQ: Early Childhood Behavior Questionnaire.PA: physical activity.
Key Words: Physical activity, Outdoor play, Active play, Free play, Preschoolers, Temperament, Negative affectivity
What's New: Temperament is associated with obesity risk in preschoolers, but its relationship with outdoor play is unknown. In this cross-sectional analysis of a cohort, temperament was associated with outdoor playtime, and thus may be an important consideration in preschoolers' health interventions.
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Contributors’ Statements:
Julia R. Sharp conceptualized the study, drafted the initial manuscript, and approved the final manuscript as submitted.
Jonathon L. Maguire designed the data collection instruments, reviewed the manuscript, and approved the final manuscript.
Sarah Carsley designed the data collection instruments and helped coordinate data collection and extraction, and approved the final manuscript as.
Kawsari Abdullah conceptualized the study, reviewed and approved the final manuscript.
Yang Chen designed and completed the statistical analyses, reviewed and approved the final manuscript.
David Dai (not an author but mentioned in Acknowledgements) completed the repeat statistical analyses for the paper revision, edited the methods section, and reviewed and approved the final Design and Methods section of the manuscript.
Eliana M. Perrin helped to design the study methods, reviewed the manuscript and approved the final manuscript .
Patricia C. Parkin designed the data collection instruments, reviewed the manuscript, and approved the final manuscript.
Catherine S. Birken acted as the principal investigator, conceptualized the study, completed extensive reviews of manuscript drafts, and approved the final manuscript as submitted.
All authors approved the final manuscript as submitted and agree to be accountable for all aspects of the final manuscript.
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ABSTRACT
Background and Objectives. Outdoor free play is important for preschoolers' physical activity, health and development. Certain temperamental characteristics are associated with obesity, nutrition, and sedentary behaviors in preschoolers, but the relationship between temperament and outdoor play has not been examined. This study examined whether there is an association between temperament and outdoor play in young children.
Methods. Healthy children aged 1 to 5 years recruited to The Applied Research Group for Kids (TARGetKids!), a community-based primary care research network, from July 2008 to September 2013 were included. Parent-reported child temperament using the Childhood Behavior Questionnaire. Outdoor free play and other potential confounding variables were assessed through validated questionnaires. Multivariable linear regression was used to determine the association between temperament and outdoor play, adjusted for potential confounders.
Results. There were 3393 children with data on outdoor play. The association between negative affectivity and outdoor play was moderated by sex; in boys, for every 1-point increase in negative affectivity score, mean outdoor play decreased by 4.7 minutes/day. There was no significant association in girls. Surgency was associated with outdoor play; for every 1-point increase in surgency/extraversion, outdoor play increased by 4.6 minutes per day.
Conclusions. Young children's temperamental characteristics were associated with their participation in outdoor free play. Consideration of temperament could enhance interventions and strategies to increase outdoor play in young children. Longitudinal studies are needed to elucidate the relationship between children's early temperament and physical activity.
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INTRODUCTION Outdoor active free play is a major source of physical activity (PA) in young children and may
be associated with decreased BMI and obesity in preschoolers.1,2 Time outdoors may also be
associated with improved sleep, attention, imaginative play, social relationships, and reduced
symptoms of disease including asthma and chronic pain.3,4 Despite these benefits, many
preschoolers do not play outdoors on a daily basis.5 The American Academy of Pediatrics
recommends Pediatricians make it a priority to advocate for increased outdoor free play in
preschoolers, as an essential part of healthy development.6
Designing effective interventions to promote outdoor play in young children requires an
understanding of the determinants of outdoor play. Previous large cohort studies have shown that
increased outdoor play may be associated with access to green space,7,8 being white,2,5,8 being
male,5,8 having multiple playmates,5 and having a mother who does not work full-time.2,5
Research, however, has largely overlooked the role of individual child characteristics, such as
temperament, on outdoor play.
Child temperament is defined as constitutionally-based differences in behavioral style that are
evident from the earliest years.9 In their well-validated measure of temperament, the Children's
Behavior Questionnaire (CBQ),9 Rothbart et al define three temperament constructs: negative
affectivity, surgency/extraversion, and effortful control. Briefly, negative affectivity reflects the
tendency to experience and express negative emotional reactions. Surgency/extraversion reflects
level of motor activity, seeking closeness with others, and positive emotional reactions to high-
intensity stimuli. Effortful control reflects self-control of attention and behavior, and positive
reactions to low-intensity stimuli. Temperament has been shown to influence obesity and related
behaviors in young children, including nutrition and screen time,10,11 with greater levels of
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negative affectivity inferring increased risk.10,12,13 Given the association of negative affectivity
with health behaviors, the primary objective of this study was to determine if negative affectivity
was associated with outdoor play. The secondary objectives were to determine if the other
temperament constructs, effortful control or surgency/extraversion were associated with outdoor
play. Based on evidence that age and sex may relate to expression of temperament,14 we assessed
whether child age and sex modified the relationship of temperament and outdoor play.
DESIGN AND METHODS
The Applied Research Group for Kids (TARGetKids!) is an ongoing open longitudinal cohort
study that has recruited healthy children from 9 primary care practices in Toronto, Canada.15
Children were invited to participate at each primary care visit, using parent-completed
questionnaires. Exclusion criteria included health conditions affecting growth (e.g. cystic
fibrosis), other chronic health conditions (excluding asthma), severe developmental delay, and
inability to complete English-language questionnaires. The full details of the cohort profile have
been published seperately.15 Data for the current study were collected between July 2008 and
September 2013. The exposure variable for this study, child temperament, was measured using a
suite of age appropriate validated questionnaires, the Very Short Forms (VSF) for the Early
Childhood Behavior Questionnaire (ECBQ)16 completed at the 18-month visit, and the Children's
Behavior Questionnaire (CBQ)9,17 completed at the 3-year visit. Using the VSF-ECBQ/CBQ,
parents were asked to consider their child’s reaction in the past 6 months to 36 situations (e.g.,
“gets angry when can’t find something s/he wants to play with”) on a 7-point scale from
“extremely untrue of your child” to “extremely true of your child.” For each child, the VSF-
ECBQ/CBQ produced independent scores for three broad temperament factors: negative
affectivity, effortful control and surgency/extraversion. Each factor was determined by 12 items
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chosen from the original CBQ/ECBQ, determined to have high correlation to their associated
factor and low correlation to the other two.16,17 Children with high negative affectivity show a
predisposition to react with anger, frustration and fear, are negatively affected by situations with
high stimulation, and are difficult to soothe after distress or excitement. Children with high levels
of effortful control enjoy situations involving low stimulus intensity, have the capacity to
suppress inappropriate approach responses under novel or uncertain situations, and can maintain
focus on task-related activities. Children with high levels of surgency show a predisposition to
positive emotions; they are impulsive, highly active, enjoy situations involving high stimulation,
and do not show discomfort in social situations.9,14
The psychometric properties of these questionnaires have been evaluated in US, Chinese and
Japanese populations, with similar reliability (mean 0.78) and internal consistency (0.68 to
0.93).9 Parent-report measures of temperament have been shown to have low to moderate
convergence with laboratory and observational measures of temperament,18,19,20 and both
methods show evidence of validity. 9,20
The primary outcome variable in this study was parent-reported outdoor free play time, a
measure that has been shown to correlate moderately well with accelerometry-measured PA in
TARGetKids! data and in prior studies (spearman correlation r= 0.30 to 0.33)21,22 Specifically,
parents were asked “Aside from time in daycare and preschool, on a TYPICAL WEEKDAY, how
much time does your child spend outside in unstructured free play?” using wording from the
validated Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS),23 and similar to wording in previous
validated measures of outdoor play.21
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The covariates identified a priori as potential confounders in the relationship between
temperament and outdoor play were based on a review of the literature and included child’s age,
sex, zBMI, time of year when questionnaire was completed, maternal ethnicity, maternal
education level, neighborhood income, parental employment, daycare use, and presence of
siblings.2,5,7,8 Child's age was reported in months, and sex as male or female. To provide an age-
and sex-adjusted measure of weight status, zBMI was used. Time of year was dichotomized into
two categories; cooler months (November to April) and warmer months (May to October).
Median neighborhood household income was calculated using the six-digit postal codes for each
participant to obtain the median after-tax value (using the Statistics Canada Postal Code
Conversion File and data from the 2006 Canadian Census).24 Maternal ethnicity was measured
by the question "What were the ethnic or cultural origins of your child’s ancestors [...] on the
biological mother’s side?" using 20 categories of ethnicity from the CCHS. These categories
were then categorized to 7 major groups of European, East/Southeast Asian, South Asian, Arab,
African, Latin, and Other, as previously published.25
Descriptive analyses of the main exposure, outcome variable, and all covariates at baseline were
conducted. To assess the relationship between the primary exposure variable, negative
affectivity, and the outcome variable, outdoor play, we used a multiple linear regression model
adjusted for the covariates described above. We repeated this analysis with secondary exposure
variables surgency/extraversion and effortful control. Based on previous research, children’s age
and sex were thought to potentially modify the relationship between the temperament and time in
outdoor play, therefore they were included as interaction terms. To minimize model selection
and multiple testing, all interaction terms were tested simultaneously. The a priori plan was to
eliminate the interaction terms if no interaction terms were significant. If an interaction term was
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felt to be significant, stratified models were then run to determine the size of the effect.
Regression coefficients, confidence intervals, and p-values were generated non-parametrically
using 5000 bootstrapped samples to avoid incorrect parametric inferences due to non-normal
model residuals.26 To assess the linearity of associations, model residuals were plotted against
the temperament variables, and showed no patterns of non-linearity. Because data were expected
to be missing at random, multiple imputation was used to reduce bias from performing complete
case analysis; none of the variables had more than 13% missing data. Fifty data sets were
computer generated and the results were pooled.27 All statistical analyses were conducted with
the use of SAS 9.3 for Windows and R version 3.3.1.
RESULTS
Baseline characteristics are shown in Table 1. There were 5161 children aged 1-5 years in the
TARGetKids! research cohort at the time of data extraction. Our sample included the 3393
children for whom data on outdoor play was available. Mean time outdoors on a typical weekday
was 61 minutes, with no significant differences by age group or sex. Mean scores for negative
affectivity were 3.6 (SD 0.9, range 1 to 7), surgency 4.8 (SD 0.8, range 1.7 to 7), and effortful
control 5.4 (SD 0.8, range 1.4 to 7).
In the multivariate linear regression analysis examining the relationship between negative
affectivity and outdoor play, the interaction with sex was approaching significance (95% CI -
0.61, 7.35, p = 0.06). The regression analysis was therefore run separately for girls and boys.
There was a statistically significant association between negative affectivity and outdoor play
among boys but not among girls (Table 2). In boys, for every 1-point increase in negative
affectivity score, mean outdoor playtime decreased by 4.7 (95% CI -7.92, -1.52, p = 0.002)
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minutes per day (Table 3). There was no significant interaction with age (95% CI -0.08, 0.12, p =
0.792). Covariates associated with outdoor play included time of year, with 28.4 (95% CI 22.84,
33.91, p < 0.001) more minutes of daily outdoor play reported in the warmer months. There was
also a statistically significant effect for most categories of ethnicity, with all ethnicities having
decreased time in outdoor play compared with Europeans. Hours in daycare were also negatively
associated with outdoor play time; for every hour spent in daycare per week, mean daily outdoor
play time decreased by 0.5 (95% CI -0.67, -0.33, p <0.001) minutes per day. Of note, there was
no significant effect of zBMI on outdoor play. In girls, there was a similar significant association
of outdoor play with season and daycare attendance, but not with ethnicity.
Examining the relationship between surgency/extraversion and outdoor play, for every 1-point
increase in surgency/extraversion score, mean outdoor playtime increased by 4.6 minutes per day
(p = 0.002, 95% CI 2.73,7.70).There were no statistically significant interactions with age or sex
(Table 2). There was no statistically significant association found when examining the
relationship between effortful control and outdoor play (Table 2).
DISCUSSION
In this sample of healthy preschool children recruited from primary care practices, higher
negative affectivity was associated with less outdoor play in boys, and higher
surgency/extraversion was associated with more outdoor play in all children. Best practice
guidelines from the National Association of Sports and Physical Education28 recommend that
children 0 - 5 years old accumulate at least 60 minutes of unstructured physical activity daily,
including time outdoors. Similarly, the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology29 recommends
children 0 - 4 years old accumulate at least 180 minutes daily of PA at any level, including play
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outdoors, with the goal of progressing toward at least 60 minutes of energetic play by age 5. In
looking at our results, taking the example of two children with negative affectivity scores of 2
and 6, a 4.7 minute difference per unit change in temperament score could translate to a
difference of 19 minutes of outdoor play per day. Thus, these differences in outdoor play time
between children of varying temperaments could make a significant impact on meeting daily
goals for minimum active play in preschoolers.
A recent Canadian study of 216 preschoolers in childcare centres concluded that none of the
studied constructs of parent-reported temperament were predictive of accelerometry-measured
PA.30 This study is difficult to compare, however, as they used a different instrument with
different domains to measure temperament, and activity data were collected during childcare
hours only, a time that has been suggested to be quite sedentary for preschoolers.31
There has been increasing attention paid to how children’s temperament contributes to their
health; different temperamental characteristics may act as either protective or risk factors for
various childhood health and behavior outcomes,32,33 A recent systematic review which
summarized 18 studies on temperament and weight outcomes concluded that greater levels of
negative affectivity in early life were associated with increased risk of obesity in infants and
young children.10 Postulated mechanisms include increased intake of sweet food and drinks,12
decreased fruit and vegetable intake,12 and increased television exposure.7
In the present study, there was an association demonstrated between higher negative affectivity
and reduced outdoor play in boys. The following are hypothesized mechanisms that may support
these findings: discomfort with new situations, social gatherings, and high sensory stimuli may
lead boys with high negative affect to seek out more low-stimulus activities, a tendency toward
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fear and difficult “soothability” may lead parents to keep these children indoors to avoid negative
reactions, time indoors could be used as punishment for negative behaviors, or reverse causality,
where boys who have less opportunities for outdoor play may be characterized by their parents
as having higher negative affectivity. Temperament has been shown to be a stable construct, so
should not be significantly affected by short-term exposures.14
Sex differences in the relationship of temperament and preschoolers' health behaviors have been
demonstrated in previous research.34 In the current study, while there was a significant
association of negative affectivity with outdoor play in males, there was no association in
females. This raises the possibility that caregivers' behaviors in response to a child's
temperament may be subject to sex differences. Preschool aged boys have been shown to
participate in more PA than girls, 35,36 but there is inconsistent evidence about whether similar
sex differences exist for participation in outdoor play,2,5,7,8 or overall PA. A sex difference in
overall outdoor play was also not identified in the current study.
There has been limited research to assess the association of surgency/extraversion with PA or
health-related outcomes in children. In a recent study, a temperament measure related to high
activity level was positively associated with accelerometry-measured PA, and negatively
associated with sedentary behavior.37 In our study, more highly surgent/extraverted children
spent more time in outdoor free play. Mechanisms that may explain this include: a tendency
toward enjoyment of high-stimulus activity leads these children to request outdoor activities
where they can run and jump, or their enjoyment of high-stimulus and gross motor activity leads
parents to send these children outdoors, or reverse causality, where increased time outdoors leads
to higher expression of surgency/extraversion. The association of outdoor play with season and
ethnicity are supported by previous studies in preschoolers.2,5,8,21 The association of daycare
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attendance with decreased outdoor play outside of daycare demonstrated in our study was
statistically significant, though given the small magnitude of the effect the clinical significance is
questionable. Still, the direction of this effect is consistent with previous research.5,38
Hypothesized mechanisms that may explain this include: children in daycare are more likely to
have working parents who do not provide supervision for outdoor playtime, or parents’
perceptions that their child participated in outdoor play during daycare hours results in a lower
priority for time outdoors at home. Although these effects are interesting, the estimates are
exploratory in nature and this model was not designed to test the relationship of ethnicity,
season, or daycare attendance with outdoor play. This needs to be explored further in a separate
analysis.
Study strengths include a relatively large sample size and detailed clinical data, which allowed
inclusion of numerous potential confounding variables, including time of year and daycare
attendance, which have only been examined in a few previous studies.2,5,21
There are some limitations to our study that warrant careful consideration. Firstly, our data was
cross-sectional, and therefore does not allow us to infer causality. Our outcome measure of
outdoor play was assessed by parent-report, rather than direct measurement. Parent-reported
outdoor play has been shown to correlate moderately with accelerometry-measured PA in
preschoolers,,21 including our own data.22 In this study, we did not have data to assess parenting
strategies around outdoor play. There is some evidence to suggest that higher levels of parental
support for PA are associated with increased outdoor playtime in preschoolers.8 We did not have
data to assess the effect of built environment and access to green space on outdoor play, as
demonstrated in some studies..2,7,8 We also did not have data on parental concern for
neighborhood safety, though this has not been shown to correlate with young children's outdoor
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play in previous studies.2,5 Although we hypothesized that parent perception of outdoor time at
daycare may be associated with time spent in outdoor play at home, we did not have data to
assess this in our sample. Finally, it is possible that other unmeasured confounding factors may
account for the associations.
It is important to consider how understanding the association of child temperament with outdoor
play might be applied to promote outdoor activity in young children. There is evidence for
parenting interventions that target difficult behaviors in children.39 Understanding how to adapt
and modify interventions for a "good fit" with the child’s temperamental characteristics,14,40
while considering other factors previously demonstrated to be associated with outdoor play time
in this age group, may result in more elegant models of health intervention that could be
developed and tested.
CONCLUSION
Our results highlight the association of preschoolers’ temperamental characteristics with outdoor
free play. Consideration of child temperament could help to enhance interventions and promote
parenting strategies aimed at increasing outdoor free play in young children. Child health
practitioners are uniquely positioned to help parents integrate temperament-based approaches for
health-related behaviors such as outdoor play. Further research is required to explore the causal
relationship between temperament and outdoor play using longitudinal data in young children.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors acknowledge David Dai for his substantial contributions to the final statistical
analyses and input for the Design and Methods section.
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The authors thank all participating families for their time and involvement in TARGetKids! and
are grateful to all practitioners who are currently involved in the TARGetKids! research network.
We would like to acknowledge the funding support provided by the Academic Pediatric
Association Resident Investigator Award 2014.
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Table 1. Baseline Characteristics
Characteristics Overall
n = 3373*
Male
n = 1762*
Female
n = 1631*
Age, months (mean, SD) 33.5 (17.9) 33.33 (18.14) 33.69 (17.72)
Typical weekday outdoor free play, minutes
(mean, 95% CI)
Age < 2 years
Age ≥2 years
59.4 (58.1, 64.0)
62.4 (60.0, 65.0)
59.80 (59.27)
62.64 (60.23)
59.00 (67.77)
62.30 (56.73)
Temperament score, of 7 (mean, SD)
Negative affectivity
Surgency/extraversion
Effortful control
3.6 (0.9, )
4.8 (0.8)
5.4 (0.8)
3.57 (0.94)
4.87 (0.79)
5.29 (0.75)
3.65 (0.92)
4.62 (0.82)
5.52 (0.73)
Maternal ethnicity (N, %)
African
Arab
East/SE Asian
European/Caucasian
Latin
South Asian
Other
143 (4.4)
61 (1.8)
341 (10.4)
2262 (68.7)
108 (3.3)
195 (5.9)
181 (5.5)
71 ( 4.1)
33 ( 1.9)
177 (10.3)
1172 (68.4)
61 ( 3.6)
106 ( 6.2)
93 ( 5.4)
72 ( 4.6)
28 ( 1.8)
164 (10.4)
1090 (69.1)
47 ( 3.0)
89 ( 5.6)
88 ( 5.6)
Maternal employment (N, %)
Full-time
Part-time
Unemployed
1571 (49.1)
555 (17.4)
1072 (33.5)
812 (48.8)
291 (17.5)
560 (33.7)
759 (49.4)
264 (17.2)
512 (33.4)
Maternal education (N, %)
High school and public school
College/University+
326 (9.9)
2963 (90.1)
180 (10.5)
1537 (89.5)
146 ( 9.3)
1426 (90.7)
Neighborhood income (mean $, SD) 59,690 (26,240) 58,640 (24,560) 60,830 (27,930)
Last week Hours of daycare (mean hours, SD) 10.8 (16.4) 10.77 (16.26) 10.73 (16.50)
Presence of siblings (N, % “yes”) 2198 (65.4) 1130 (64.6) 1068 (66.1)
Season (N, %)
Cooler months (October-April)
Warmer months (May-September)
1786 (52.6)
1607 (47.4)
924 (52.4)
838 (47.6)
862 (52.9)
769 (47.1)
zBMI (mean, SD) 0.13 (1.14) 0.25 (1.12) 0.15 (1.08) *Missing data: surgency n = 429 (12.6%), negative affectivity n = 430 (12.7%), effortful control n = 429 (12.6%), maternal ethnicity n = 102 (3.0%), maternal employment n = 195 (5.7%), maternal education n = 104 (3.1%), neighborhood income n = 242 (7.1%), hours of daycare n = 128 (3.8%), presence of siblings n = 29 (0.9%), season n = 0, zBMI n =136 (4%).
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Table 2: Adjusted estimate of association between temperamental constructs and outdoor play in preschool children
Temperament Stratified By
Adjusted Estimate
(min/day)
95% CI*
Empirical p
Negative affectivity**
Female sex -0.23 -3.93, 3.01 0.966
Male sex -4.71 -7.92, -1.52 0.002
Surgency/extraversion† All 4.60 2.73, 7.70 0.003
Effortful control† All 1.83 -1.13, 5.02 0.244
*Bolded values are statistically significant p<0.05 **adjusted for age, maternal employment, maternal ethnicity, maternal education, neighbourhood income, hours of daycare per week, number of siblings, time of year, BMI †adjusted for age, sex, maternal employment, maternal ethnicity, maternal education, neighbourhood income, hours of daycare per week, number of siblings, time of year, BMI
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Table 3. Multivariable Regression: Effect of Negative Affectivity on Outdoor Play in Boys Exposure variable (Reference) Adjusted Estimate
(min/day)
95% CI* Empirical p
Negative affectivity -4.71 -7.92, -1.52 0.002
Age in months (Mean) 0.16 0.01, 0.31 0.044
Maternal employment (Full Time)
Part-time
Unemployed
2.92
5.71
-4.30, 10.43
-0.48, 13.29
0.437
0.120
Maternal ethnicity (European/Caucasian)
African
Arab
East/Southeast Asian
Latin
South Asian
Other
-12.06
-30.04
-15.72
-22.25
-16.96
-10.08
-25.50, 5.94
-42.23, -16.95
-22.86, -7.77
-32.33, -12.62
-26.74, -4.47
-19.08, -0.21
0.130
<0.001
<0.001
<0.001
0.005
0.041
Maternal education (College/University)
Public school or high school
4.34
-4.89, 15.55
0.442
Neighborhood income (per $10,000) -0.06 -0.17, 0.04 0.260
Last week hours daycare (Mean) -0.50 -0.67, -0.33 <0.001
Number of siblings (Mean) -1.59 -4.83, 1.81 0.351
Warmer months 28.40 22.84, 33.91 <0.001
zBMI 0.35 -1.86, 3.12 0.976
*Bolded values are statistically significant p < 0.05
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Appendix Figure 1. Histogram of Score Distributions for Negative Affectivity
Negative Affectivity Score (1 - 7)
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Figure 2. Histogram of Score Distributions for Surgency/Extraversion
Surgency/Extraversion Score (1 - 7)
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Figure 3. Histogram of Score Distributions for Effortful Control
Effortful Control Score (1 - 7)
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