@article{ref1,
title="The role of the neighborhood social environment in physical activity among Hispanic children: moderation by cultural factors and mediation by neighborhood norms",
journal="International journal of environmental research and public health",
year="2020",
author="Kim, Yeonwoo and Ritchie, Lorrene and Landgraf, Andrew and Hasson, Rebecca E. and Colabianchi, Natalie",
volume="17",
number="24",
pages="e9527-e9527",
abstract="Little is known about how the neighborhood social environment (e.g., safety, crime,  traffic) impacts child physical activity. We examine the mechanism by which the  neighborhood social environment is associated with child physical activity,  moderated by individual-level cultural factors (e.g., language at home, immigrant  generation) and mediated by neighborhood physical activity-related social norms  (e.g., seeing walkers in the neighborhood). Data included 2749 non-Hispanic White  and Hispanic children from the Healthy Communities Study. Multilevel regression was  performed. The neighborhood social environment was not associated with physical  activity in the full sample. However, Hispanic children speaking both English and  Spanish and first- or second-generation Hispanic children engaged in more physical  activity when the quality of the neighborhood social environment was higher (b =  1.60, p < 0.001 for Hispanic children speaking English and Spanish; b = 2.03, p <  0.01 for first-generation Hispanic children; b = 1.29, p < 0.01 for  second-generation Hispanic children). Neighborhood physical activity-related social  norms mediated the association between the neighborhood social environment and  physical activity among Hispanic children speaking English and Spanish (b = 0.33, p  < 0.001) and second-generation Hispanic children (b = 0.40, p < 0.001). <br><br>FINDINGS  suggest heterogeneity in how neighborhood social environments impact physical  activity by cultural factors. Health promotion programs may need to enhance  neighborhood social environments to increase Hispanic children's physical activity.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1661-7827",
doi="10.3390/ijerph17249527",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17249527"
}