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Learning to cycle : a cross-cultural and cross-generational comparison

Rita Cordovil, Cristiana Mercê, Marco Branco, Frederico Lopes, David Catela, Elina Hasanen, Arto Laukkanen, Patrizia Tortella, Guido Fumagalli, Cristina Sá, et al.
(2022) FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH. 10.
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Background: Learning to cycle is an important milestone for children, but the popularity of cycling and the environmental factors that promote the development and practice of this foundational movement skill vary among cultures and across time. This present study aimed to investigate if country of residence and the generation in which a person was born influence the age at which people learn to cycle. Methods: Data were collected through an online survey between November 2019 and December 2020. For this study, a total of 9,589 responses were obtained for adults (self-report) and children (parental report) living in 10 countries (Portugal, Italy, Brazil, Finland, Spain, Belgium, United Kingdom, Mexico, Croatia, and the Netherlands). Participants were grouped according to their year of birth with 20-year periods approximately corresponding to 3 generations: 1960-79 (generation X; n = 2,214); 1980-99 (generation Y; n = 3,994); 2000-2019 (generation Z; n = 3,381). Results: A two-way ANOVA showed a significant effect of country, F-(9,F-8628) = 90.17, p < 0.001, eta(2)(p) = 0.086, and generation, F-(2,F-8628) = 47.21, p < 0.001, eta(2)(p) = 0.122, on the age at which individuals learn to cycle. Countries with the lowest learning age were the Netherlands, Finland and Belgium and countries with the highest learning age were Brazil and Mexico. Furthermore, the age at which one learns to cycle has decreased across generations. There was also a significant country x generation interaction effect on learning age, F-(18,F-8628) = 2.90, p < 0.001; however, this effect was negligible (eta(2)(p) = 0.006). Conclusions: These findings support the socio-ecological perspective that learning to cycle is a process affected by both proximal and distal influences, including individual, environment and time.
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Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, children, active travel, generation, country, cycling

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Cordovil, Rita, et al. “Learning to Cycle : A Cross-Cultural and Cross-Generational Comparison.” FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH, vol. 10, Frontiers Media SA, 2022, doi:10.3389/fpubh.2022.861390.
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Cordovil, R., Mercê, C., Branco, M., Lopes, F., Catela, D., Hasanen, E., … Estevan, I. (2022). Learning to cycle : a cross-cultural and cross-generational comparison. FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.861390
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Cordovil, Rita, Cristiana Mercê, Marco Branco, Frederico Lopes, David Catela, Elina Hasanen, Arto Laukkanen, et al. 2022. “Learning to Cycle : A Cross-Cultural and Cross-Generational Comparison.” FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.861390.
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Cordovil, Rita, Cristiana Mercê, Marco Branco, Frederico Lopes, David Catela, Elina Hasanen, Arto Laukkanen, Patrizia Tortella, Guido Fumagalli, Cristina Sá, Boris Jidovtseff, Linus Zeuwts, An De Meester, Farid Bardid, Ricardo Fujikawa, Sanne Veldman, Silvija Zlatar, and Isaac Estevan. 2022. “Learning to Cycle : A Cross-Cultural and Cross-Generational Comparison.” FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH 10. doi:10.3389/fpubh.2022.861390.
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Cordovil R, Mercê C, Branco M, Lopes F, Catela D, Hasanen E, et al. Learning to cycle : a cross-cultural and cross-generational comparison. FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH. 2022;10.
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R. Cordovil et al., “Learning to cycle : a cross-cultural and cross-generational comparison,” FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH, vol. 10, 2022.
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