Table 6.

Latent Growth Curve Model Predictors of Intensity of Active Physical Activities

Predictors	Intercept	Slope
Child Factors (Demographics, Personal Preferences, and Resources)
Child’s age (years)	−0.061	−0.367***
Child’s sex (male)	0.143**	−0.060
Child preferences for physical activities	0.301***	−0.185*
Child communicative functioning	0.053	0.107*
Child physical functioning	0.371***	−0.154
Child emotional functioning	0.035	−0.005
Child behavioral functioning	0.091	0.036
Child hyperactivity	−0.049	0.044
Child peer problems	−0.074	0.074
Child prosocial behavior	0.064	−0.085
Parent/Family Factors (Socio-demographics, Personal Resources, and Family Environment)
Parent/caregiver’s ethnicity (non Caucasian)	−0.202***	0.182***
Household income	0.119**	0.018
Parent/caregiver’s physical functioning	−0.002	0.117
Parent/caregiver’s mental functioning	0.024	−0.078
Family cohesion	−0.009	−0.031
Family recreational orientation	0.206***	0.143
Family intellectual orientation	−0.017	−0.067
Major life changes in past four months	−0.015	0.126
Community Environment
Policies environment	0.073	−0.136
Physical environment	−0.057	−0.153
Work/school environment	−0.049	0.57
Attitudinal environment	0.066	−0.051
Services environment	0.026	−0.032
R Square	.487	.303
CFI = .978
TLI = .933
RMSEA = .038

^*p ≤ .05,

^**p ≤ .01,

^***p ≤ .001

Note: Model controls for responding parent/caregiver’s age and sex