Ryan E Rhodes1, Brian E Saelens2,3, Claire Sauvage-Mar4. 1. Behavioral Medicine Laboratory, School of Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education, University of Victoria, PO Box 1700, Victoria, BC, V8W 2Y2, Canada. rhodes@uvic.ca. 2. Seattle Children's Research Institute, Center for Child Health Behavior and Development, Seattle, WA, USA. 3. School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. 4. Behavioral Medicine Laboratory, School of Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education, University of Victoria, PO Box 1700, Victoria, BC, V8W 2Y2, Canada.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Few people in most developed nations engage in regular physical activity (PA), despite its well-established health benefits. Socioecological models highlight the potential interaction of multiple factors from policy and the built environment to individual social cognition in explaining PA. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this review was to appraise this interaction tenet of the socioecological model between the built environment and social cognition to predict PA. METHODS: Eligible studies had to have been published in peer-reviewed journals in the English language, and included any tests of interaction between social cognition and the built environment with PA. Literature searches, concluded in October 2017, used five common databases. Findings were grouped by type of PA outcomes (leisure, transportation, total PA and total moderate-vigorous PA [MVPA]), then grouped by the type of interactions between social cognitive and built environment constructs. RESULTS: The initial search yielded 308 hits, which was reduced to 22 independent studies of primarily high- to medium-quality after screening for eligibility criteria. The interaction tenet of the socioecological model was not supported for overall MVPA and total PA. By contrast, while there was heterogeneity of findings for leisure-time PA, environmental accessibility/convenience interacted with intention, and environmental aesthetics interacted with affective judgments, to predict leisure-time PA. Interactions between the built environment and social cognition in PA for transport are limited, with current results failing to support an effect. CONCLUSIONS: The results provide some support for interactive aspects of the built environment and social cognition in leisure-time PA, and thus highlight potential areas for integrated intervention of individual and environmental change.
BACKGROUND: Few people in most developed nations engage in regular physical activity (PA), despite its well-established health benefits. Socioecological models highlight the potential interaction of multiple factors from policy and the built environment to individual social cognition in explaining PA. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this review was to appraise this interaction tenet of the socioecological model between the built environment and social cognition to predict PA. METHODS: Eligible studies had to have been published in peer-reviewed journals in the English language, and included any tests of interaction between social cognition and the built environment with PA. Literature searches, concluded in October 2017, used five common databases. Findings were grouped by type of PA outcomes (leisure, transportation, total PA and total moderate-vigorous PA [MVPA]), then grouped by the type of interactions between social cognitive and built environment constructs. RESULTS: The initial search yielded 308 hits, which was reduced to 22 independent studies of primarily high- to medium-quality after screening for eligibility criteria. The interaction tenet of the socioecological model was not supported for overall MVPA and total PA. By contrast, while there was heterogeneity of findings for leisure-time PA, environmental accessibility/convenience interacted with intention, and environmental aesthetics interacted with affective judgments, to predict leisure-time PA. Interactions between the built environment and social cognition in PA for transport are limited, with current results failing to support an effect. CONCLUSIONS: The results provide some support for interactive aspects of the built environment and social cognition in leisure-time PA, and thus highlight potential areas for integrated intervention of individual and environmental change.
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