Children’s bodies and material culture: A study of children’s physical activities based on games

Childhood ◽

10.1177/0907568220980513 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 090756822098051

Author(s):

Pascale Garnier

Keyword(s):

Empirical Study ◽

Material Culture ◽

Focus Groups ◽

Physical Activities ◽

Card Game ◽

Age And Gender ◽

Symbolic Resources ◽

And Gender ◽

Different Characteristics ◽

Shed Light

Within a socio-anthropological framework, this paper studies how the relations between children’s bodies and material culture are related to age and gender identities. The empirical study involves nine focus groups of children playing a card game created for this research. The results illustrate how boys and girls favor different characteristics of these artifacts. They shed light on how this material culture provides symbolic resources for children relationships and performs what their bodies are and will be able to do.

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Relationship between Children's and Parents' Stereotyping of Physical Activities

Perceptual and Motor Skills ◽

10.2466/pms.1993.77.3f.1283 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 77 (3_suppl) ◽

pp. 1283-1289 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Tracy L. Pellett ◽

Arlene A. Ignico

Keyword(s):

Physical Activity ◽

Gender Differences ◽

Elementary Schools ◽

Physical Activities ◽

Age And Gender ◽

Student Groups ◽

Age And Gender Differences ◽

And Gender ◽

The Relationship

The purpose of this study was to examine age and gender differences in perceptions of gender-typed physical activities and to investigate the relationship between children's and parents' perceptions. Participants included 357 students in Grades K, 2, 4, and 6 and their parents ( n = 455) from two elementary schools in Utah. The Physical Activity Stereotyping Index was used to assess both children's and parents' perceptions. Boys scored higher (more stereotypical in perceptions) on the Index than girls. Students in Kindergarten and Grade 2 scored significantly higher than those in Grades 4 and 6, while all adult (parents) groups were less stereotypical in their beliefs than all student groups. Significant correlations were obtained for spouses' scores ( r = .44, p < .001) and for parents' and their children's scores ( r = .24, p < .02).

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Healthy Food Looks Serious: How Children Interpret Packaged Food Products

Canadian Journal of Communication ◽

10.22230/cjc.2009v34n3a2220 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 34 (3) ◽

Cited By ~ 37

Author(s):

Charlene D. Elliott

Keyword(s):

Focus Groups ◽

Food Habits ◽

Unintended Consequences ◽

Healthy Food ◽

Age And Gender ◽

Habitudes Alimentaires ◽

Health And Nutrition ◽

And Gender ◽

Packaged Food ◽

Groupes De Discussion

Abstract: Fun food is an overlooked, but increasingly significant, category of food targeted to children in the supermarket. These supermarket products emphasize foods’ play factor, interactivity, artificiality, and general distance from “regular” foods: food is positioned as “fun” and eating as “entertainment.” Using a series of focus groups, this study examined how children (segmented by age and gender) interpret these packaged appeals and how the thematic of fun connects with their understanding of health and nutrition. The study revealed that children are highly attuned to fun foods and its packaging, offering savvy, if flawed, interpretations of how to determine the healthfulness of a packaged good. I argue that the symbolic positioning of children’s food as fun and fake creates several roadblocks in the quest to promote wholesome food habits in children, and that the thematic of fun has unintended consequences that require careful consideration.Résumé : Au supermarché, les aliments amusants sont une catégorie de nourriture négligée – mais de plus en plus importante – qui cible les enfants. De tels produits mettent l’accent sur l’aspect ludique, interactif et artificiel de la nourriture ainsi que sur leur distance par rapport à la nourriture « normale »; ainsi, ces aliments sont qualifiés d’amusants et manger est un divertissement. Cette étude se fonde sur une série de groupes de discussion pour examiner comment les enfants (divisés par âge et sexe) interprètent ce conditionnement des aliments et comment la thématique du plaisir influence leur compréhension de ce qui est sain et nutritif. L’étude révèle que les enfants sont très sensibles aux nourritures amusantes et à leur présentation, et offrent des interprétations astucieuses mais défectueuses de leur valeur nutritive. Je soutiens que le positionnement symbolique de la nourriture pour enfants dans le domaine du plaisir et de l’artifice crée de nombreux obstacles pour la promotion de bonnes habitudes alimentaires chez les enfants, et que la thématique du plaisir a des conséquences non intentionnelles qui requièrent une attention toute particulière.

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The Epidemiology of Suicide and Attempted Suicide among Young Australians

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.1080/j.1440-1614.2000.00756.x ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 34 (3) ◽

pp. 370-387 ◽

Cited By ~ 42

Author(s):

Chris Cantor ◽

Kerryn Neulinger

Keyword(s):

Attempted Suicide ◽

Data Systems ◽

Youth Suicide ◽

Age And Gender ◽

Alternative Systems ◽

Literature Searches ◽

Family Issues ◽

And Gender ◽

Australian Bureau Of Statistics ◽

Shed Light

Objective: This paper summarises a report to the NHMRC the objectives of which were to review research into the epidemiology of youth suicide in Australia and identify gaps in research. Method: Literature searches were conducted. A limited amount of new data analysis was included to shed light on reliability issues of official Australian suicide data. Results: The review examined suicide data systems, including issues to do with coroners, the Australian Bureau of Statistics and alternative systems. The epidemiological areas reviewed included: all ages, youth, age and gender, geographical, socioeconomic, marital, indigenous, migrants, suicides in custody and gay and lesbian suicides. Conclusion: While much is known about the epidemiology of youth suicide, much remains to be clarified. Study of indigenous issues is perhaps the most neglected area; study of family issues may be potentially be the most productive.

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Age and Gender Affect Different Characteristics of Slow Waves in the Sleep EEG

SLEEP ◽

10.1093/sleep/18.7.557 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 18 (7) ◽

pp. 557-564 ◽

Cited By ~ 82

Author(s):

M. S. Mourtazaev ◽

B. Kemp ◽

A. H. Zwinderman ◽

H. A. C. Kamphuisen

Keyword(s):

Slow Waves ◽

Sleep Eeg ◽

Age And Gender ◽

And Gender ◽

Different Characteristics

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Exploring response tokens in Irish English — a multidisciplinary approach

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics ◽

10.1075/ijcl.17.3.02mur ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 17 (3) ◽

pp. 325-348 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Bróna Murphy

Keyword(s):

Social Status ◽

Social Factors ◽

Interdisciplinary Research ◽

Corpus Linguistics ◽

Multidisciplinary Approach ◽

Ethnic Background ◽

Age And Gender ◽

Fine Grained ◽

And Gender ◽

Shed Light

Schneider & Barron (2008) discuss the effect of macro-social factors such as region, ethnic background, age, social status and gender on intra-lingual pragmatic conventions, and state that, to date, they have received comparatively little attention in the study of pragmatics. This paper chooses two macro-social factors, age and gender, and focuses on how they impact on the use of response tokens in Irish English. Not only does the paper shed light on the use of variational pragmatics as a framework for corpus-based studies but it also brings together research on sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics, which has, to-date, been scarce (Baker 2010). The paper reveals the importance of avoiding the exploration of sociolinguistic variables in isolation and concludes by highlighting the importance of interdisciplinary research and the merits of fine-grained sociolinguistic investigations using small corpora.

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Self-assessed and directly measured occupational physical activities—influence of musculoskeletal complaints, age and gender

Applied Ergonomics ◽

10.1016/j.apergo.2003.06.001 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 35 (1) ◽

pp. 49-56 ◽

Cited By ~ 76

Author(s):

I Balogh ◽

P Ørbæk ◽

K Ohlsson ◽

C Nordander ◽

J Unge ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Physical Activities ◽

Musculoskeletal Complaints ◽

Age And Gender ◽

And Gender

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Data Disaggregation in Demand Forecasting

Tourism and Hospitality Research ◽

10.1057/palgrave.thr.6040043 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 38-52 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Chau Jo Vu ◽

Lindsay Turner

Keyword(s):

Total Population ◽

Demand Forecasting ◽

Age Composition ◽

Age And Gender ◽

Forecasting Accuracy ◽

Data Disaggregation ◽

Gender And Age ◽

And Gender ◽

Different Characteristics ◽

Regional Forecast

It is assumed in tourism demand forecasting that the disaggregation of data is useful in terms of country of origin and also in terms of purpose of travel (Smith and Toms, 1967; Blackwell, 1970; Martin and Witt, 1989a). The primary disaggregation by country is useful for determining regional forecast flows and the disaggregation by purpose of visit has been considered potentially useful for increasing forecasting accuracy given the flows have different characteristics (Turner, Kulendran and Pergat, 1995; Morley and Sutikno, 1991). It is also possible to disaggregate on the basis of age and gender. It has been assumed (because no research has disaggregated by age and gender) in previous research that the gender and age composition of flows is a reflection of the total population and therefore exhibits the same time-series characteristics. This may not be the case, however. This study uses data for tourist arrivals into Korea to test the assumptions that further disaggregation of data on the basis of gender and age is not needed, and to further examine whether disaggregation by purpose of visit is worthwhile, when the purpose is to forecast total country arrivals. Quarterly data from 1994 to 2003 are used with the estimation period 1994–2001 and the post-estimation period 2002–2003. The conclusion from the study is that total arrivals forecasting is not more accurate when the data used is the sum of forecast disaggregated series, as opposed to direct forecasts of total arrivals.

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Age And Gender Features Of Motivational Readiness Of Children For School Education

The American Journal of Social Science and Education Innovations ◽

10.37547/tajssei/volume03issue01-06 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 03 (01) ◽

pp. 29-32

Author(s):

Khodjakulova Dilorom Imamovna ◽

Keyword(s):

Empirical Study ◽

School Education ◽

Preschool Age ◽

Age And Gender ◽

Motivational Readiness ◽

Internal Position ◽

Gender Characteristics ◽

And Gender ◽

Gender Features

The article analyzes the concept of motivational readiness for schooling, reveals the structure of motivational readiness and the student’s internal position as one of the most important neoplasms of the motivational sphere in preschool age, presents the results of an empirical study of age and gender characteristics of motivational readiness of children for schooling.

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