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- Rathod, Apoorva
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From sedentary behaviors to sedentary moments: what constitutes and shapes children's activities and performances at home
- 2022
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The study of children’s sedentary behavior has grown exponentially in the last few decades due to the associations between sedentary behavior and various negative health outcomes and to concerns about children’s increasing time spent using screen devices. Most research on sedentary behavior is found in the public health and medical literatures, whereas the social science perspective is currently limited. While social science disciplines have spoken at length about children’s declining spontaneous play outdoors and their increasingly domesticated lives, they could engage much more with what this domestication has meant for children’s lives at home. This thesis takes its point of departure in our lack of knowledge of children’s everyday lives at home, to explore how children’s sedentary behaviors at home are constituted and shaped. It is based on mixed-methods research with children aged 6–12 years in the Gothenburg Region in Sweden. It combines quantitative and qualitative methods to explore what kinds of sedentary behaviors children engage in at home, how these behaviors are connected to their lives outside the home, and how these behaviors are performed. In line with mixed-methods research, this thesis embraces ontological pluralism, using two very different theoretical frameworks—the socio-ecological model of health behavior, and practice theory—to study children’s sedentary behaviors. The findings reveal that children performed a variety of activities at home, many of them not sedentary and not using screen devices. These activities were also deeply entangled in the children’s lives outside the home—notably involving school, participation in organized activities, and neighborhood friendships. Crucially, many of their presumed sedentary activities were not entirely sedentary, but consisted of sedentary moments that were spatiotemporally unique, dynamic, and performed. These findings urge us to think beyond ideas of sedentary behavior as a specific form of individually motivated behavior, and instead highlight the need to think about sedentary moments performed within children’s diverse practices at home.
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- Rathod, Apoorva, et al.
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More Than Just Screen Time: Children's Sedentary Behaviors at Home and the Interplay of Home Environment Factors
- 2020
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Ingår i: Children, Youth and Environments. - : Project Muse. - 1546-2250. ; 30:2, s. 72-96
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Children’s sedentary behavior (SB) is associated with various negative health outcomes. Because the home is an important site of children’s SB, it is essential to study the correlations between different kinds of SBs in which children engage and home environment factors. This paper studies 7-12-year-old children’s home-based SB in a Swedish municipality to understand the amount and correlates of different kinds of SBs, using logistic regression. Results show that children engage in both non-screen and screen-based SBs, all with multiple yet different correlates. The amount of non-screen and screen-based SBs differed by age and gender.
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- Rathod, Apoorva
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Performing sedentary behaviors: Studying children's screen practices at home as affective assemblages
- 2023
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Ingår i: Digital Geography and Society. - : Elsevier BV. - 2666-3783. ; 4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Growing concerns about children's sedentary behavior and health have drawn attention to their screen behaviors at home. However, this work leans on a deterministic and essentializing view of children, screen devices, and the home, such that it tends to equate any time spent on screens with being sedentary, device presence with increased use where children are passive receptors of screen influence, and the home as a place where parents control their children's screen use. This paper shows instead that children's screen use at home needs to be understood as a sociomaterial assemblage that is dynamic and contingent, and that affect is central to these assemblages. The paper draws on a mixed-methods exploratory study conducted with 6–12 year old children in their homes in Sweden, using accelerometry and observational data to note the children's movement behaviors as well as their screen activities. The findings show that children are both sedentary and active while using screens, questioning the idea of screen time as necessarily sedentary. Moreover, children's screen practice assemblages at home are composed of various elements that come together in dynamic and highly situated ways, challenging the device and parental influence narrative. The paper shows how we need to pay attention to the ways in which these assemblages come together and children's actual performances of screen practices in order to move beyond the predominant discourse surrounding screen time.
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- Rathod, Apoorva
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The Intersection of 'Outside' Practices and Children's Sedentary Behavior at Home
- 2021
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Ingår i: Home Cultures. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1740-6315 .- 1751-7427. ; 18:1, s. 47-67
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Health concerns about sedentary behavior have brought attention to children's home lives, including research on the factors influencing children's sedentary behavior at home. These studies highlight the importance of home factors, namely the media-rich home environment and parental influences. This paper draws on the concept of 'porosity of the home' and practice theory to study how children's home-based sedentary behavior is affected by factors beyond the home. Based on observational and interview data with children and their families conducted in Gothenburg, Sweden, four main practices outside the home are identified as affecting home behaviors - digitalization at school, organized activities, family holidays, and socialization with peers. All of these are embedded in wider discourses affecting children's lives, suggesting that children's sedentary behavior at home is complex and requires rethinking the current narrow focus on home-based factors.
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- Tremblay, Mark S, et al.
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Sedentary Behavior Research Network (SBRN) - Terminology Consensus Project process and outcome.
- 2017
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Ingår i: The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1479-5868. ; 14:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The prominence of sedentary behavior research in health science has grown rapidly. With this growth there is increasing urgency for clear, common and accepted terminology and definitions. Such standardization is difficult to achieve, especially across multi-disciplinary researchers, practitioners, and industries. The Sedentary Behavior Research Network (SBRN) undertook a Terminology Consensus Project to address this need.First, a literature review was completed to identify key terms in sedentary behavior research. These key terms were then reviewed and modified by a Steering Committee formed by SBRN. Next, SBRN members were invited to contribute to this project and interested participants reviewed and provided feedback on the proposed list of terms and draft definitions through an online survey. Finally, a conceptual model and consensus definitions (including caveats and examples for all age groups and functional abilities) were finalized based on the feedback received from the 87 SBRN member participants who responded to the original invitation and survey.Consensus definitions for the terms physical inactivity, stationary behavior, sedentary behavior, standing, screen time, non-screen-based sedentary time, sitting, reclining, lying, sedentary behavior pattern, as well as how the terms bouts, breaks, and interruptions should be used in this context are provided.It is hoped that the definitions resulting from this comprehensive, transparent, and broad-based participatory process will result in standardized terminology that is widely supported and adopted, thereby advancing future research, interventions, policies, and practices related to sedentary behaviors.
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