Outdoor activities and contact with nature in the Portuguese context: a comparative study between children’s and their parents’ experiences

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Autor(a) principal: Almeida, António
Data de Publicação: 2021
Outros Autores: Rato, Valter, Dabaja, Z. F.
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/13946
Resumo: Several studies in the Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon countries have shown a decline in outdoor activities and contact with nature during childhood. In Latin countries, these studies are still missing. A total of 562 urban children from Lisbon (Portugal) and 303 of their parents took part in the present study, which mainly aimed to compare the intergenerational engagement in outdoor activities. The results showed a decrease in children’s outdoor activities during the weekdays, weekends and summer holidays. Activities like picking berries, collecting rocks and fossils or climbing trees appear to be rarely performed nowadays. Furthermore, the results suggested that schools are no longer playing a role in promoting outdoor activities and children are spending their leisure time indoors, using technological devices or going shopping. Finally, the decline in outdoor activities seems to affect boys and girls equally. Several implications are discussed and recommendations for parents, teachers and politicians are proposed.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Outdoor activities and contact with nature in the Portuguese context: a comparative study between children’s and their parents’ experiences
title Outdoor activities and contact with nature in the Portuguese context: a comparative study between children’s and their parents’ experiences
spellingShingle Outdoor activities and contact with nature in the Portuguese context: a comparative study between children’s and their parents’ experiences
Almeida, António
Outdoor activities
Contact with nature
Primary school children
Children’s parents
title_short Outdoor activities and contact with nature in the Portuguese context: a comparative study between children’s and their parents’ experiences
title_full Outdoor activities and contact with nature in the Portuguese context: a comparative study between children’s and their parents’ experiences
title_fullStr Outdoor activities and contact with nature in the Portuguese context: a comparative study between children’s and their parents’ experiences
title_full_unstemmed Outdoor activities and contact with nature in the Portuguese context: a comparative study between children’s and their parents’ experiences
title_sort Outdoor activities and contact with nature in the Portuguese context: a comparative study between children’s and their parents’ experiences
author Almeida, António
author_facet Almeida, António
Rato, Valter
Dabaja, Z. F.
author_role author
author2 Rato, Valter
Dabaja, Z. F.
author2_role author
author
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Almeida, António
Rato, Valter
Dabaja, Z. F.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Outdoor activities
Contact with nature
Primary school children
Children’s parents
topic Outdoor activities
Contact with nature
Primary school children
Children’s parents
description Several studies in the Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon countries have shown a decline in outdoor activities and contact with nature during childhood. In Latin countries, these studies are still missing. A total of 562 urban children from Lisbon (Portugal) and 303 of their parents took part in the present study, which mainly aimed to compare the intergenerational engagement in outdoor activities. The results showed a decrease in children’s outdoor activities during the weekdays, weekends and summer holidays. Activities like picking berries, collecting rocks and fossils or climbing trees appear to be rarely performed nowadays. Furthermore, the results suggested that schools are no longer playing a role in promoting outdoor activities and children are spending their leisure time indoors, using technological devices or going shopping. Finally, the decline in outdoor activities seems to affect boys and girls equally. Several implications are discussed and recommendations for parents, teachers and politicians are proposed.
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