TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Association between residential self-selection and non-residential built environment exposures
JO  - Health and place
A1  - Howell, Nicholas A.
A1  - Farber, Steven
A1  - Widener, Michael J.
A1  - Allen, Jeff
A1  - Booth, Gillian L.
SP  - 149
EP  - 154
VL  - 54
IS  - 
N2  - Studies employing 'activity space' measures of the built environment do not always account for how individuals self-select into different residential and non-residential environments when testing associations with physical activity. To date, no study has examined whether preferences for walkable residential neighborhoods predict exposure to other walkable neighborhoods in non-residential activity spaces. Using a sample of 9783 university students from Toronto, Canada, we assessed how self-reported preferences for a walkable neighborhood predicted their exposure to other walkable, non-residential environments, and further whether these preferences confounded observed walkability-physical activity associations. We found that residential walkability preferences and non-residential walkability were significant associated (β = 0.42, 95% CI: (0.37, 0.47)), and further that these preferences confounded associations between non-residential walkability exposure and time spent walking (reduction in association = 10.5%). These results suggest that self-selection factors affect studies of non-residential built environment exposures.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1353-8292
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2018.08.009
ID  - ref1
ER  -