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Date of Award
2012
Document Type
Thesis - Pacific Access Restricted
Degree Name
Master of Arts (M.A.)
Department
Psychology
First Advisor
Matthew Normand
First Committee Member
Carolynn Kohn
Second Committee Member
Todd Davenport
Abstract
The purpose of the current study was to compare the results yielded from descriptive analyses of physical activity to those of functional analyses with the same preschool children. Descriptive analyses were conducted during repeated, 30-min naturally occurring outdoor times on an outdoor playground in a local daycare. Five minute functional analysis sessions were conducted on an outdoor playground within a multi-element experimental design. The Observational System for Recording Physical Activity in Children (McIver, Brown, Pfeiffer, Dowda, & Pate, 2009) was used to define the conditions and various levels of physical activity within both the descriptive and functional analyses. Overall, results for all participants suggested high correspondence between outcomes from the functional and descriptive analyses with respect to the context related to the highest level of MVPA, but correspondence varied across other contexts. Implications of the results and suggestions for future research are offered.
Pages
96
ISBN
9781267734365
Recommended Citation
Morley, Allison J.. (2012). Descriptive and experimental analyses of variables maintaining moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in preschool children. University of the Pacific, Thesis - Pacific Access Restricted. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/299
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