Table 1.
Descriptive statistics for the sociodemographic characteristics, general perceived social support from friends, physical activity, and sedentary behaviour for boys (n = 526).
| Physical activity | Sedentary behaviour | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sufficiently active (≥60 min of MVPA every day) |
Insufficiently active (≥60 min of MVPA on <7 days/week) |
High sedentary (>2 hrs/day of sedentary behaviour) |
Low sedentary (≤2 hrs/day of sedentary behaviour) |
|
| Sociodemographic characteristics | ||||
| Age [n (%)] | ||||
| 12 years and younger | 37 (17.2) | 178 (82.8) | 157 (73.0) | 58 (27.0)b |
| 13 years | 31 (19.0) | 132 (81.0) | 132 (81.0) | 31 (19.0) |
| 14 years and older | 16 (10.8) | 132 (89.2) | 132 (89.2) | 16 (10.8)b |
| Family affluence [n (%)] | ||||
| Low | 11 (10.7) | 92 (89.3)a | 80 (77.7) | 23 (22.3) |
| Medium | 32 (14.2) | 194 (85.8) | 177 (78.3) | 49 (21.7) |
| High | 41 (20.8) | 156 (79.2)a | 164 (83.2) | 33 (16.8) |
| Length of time in Canada [n (%)] | ||||
| More than 5 years | 6 (9.0) | 61 (91.0) | 56 (83.6) | 11 (16.4) |
| 5 years or less | 78 (17.0) | 381 (83.0) | 365 (79.5) | 94 (20.5) |
| Number of times moved last year [n (%)] | ||||
| Did not move | 74 (17.2) | 356 (82.8) | 340 (79.1) | 90 (20.9) |
| Moved at least once | 10 (10.4) | 86 (89.6) | 81 (84.4) | 15 (15.6) |
| Social network characteristics | ||||
| Incoming close friend nominations [n (%)] | ||||
| Received ≥1 nomination | 87 (16.1) | 453 (83.9) | 432 (80.0) | 108 (20.0) |
| Received no nominations | 0 (0.0) | 9 (100.0) | 5 (55.6) | 4 (44.4) |
| Proportion active close friends [mean (SD)] | 0.40 (0.4)c | 0.30 (0.3)c | 0.30 (0.3)d | 0.38 (0.3)d |
| Proportion sedentary close friends [mean (SD)] | 0.67 (0.3) | 0.72 (0.3) | 0.72 (0.3) | 0.68 (0.3) |
| Betweenness centrality [mean (SD)] | 3.63 (4.2) | 3.07 (4.2) | 3.14 (4.3) | 3.26 (3.9) |
| Popularity (incoming nominations) [mean (SD)] | 7.08 (3.6) | 6.98 (3.8) | 6.89 (3.7) | 7.40 (4.0) |
| Clique member [n (%)] | ||||
| Not a member | 35 (18.0) | 155 (82.0) | 156 (82.1) | 34 (17.9) |
| Member | 49 (14.6) | 287 (85.4) | 265 (78.9) | 71 (21.1) |
| Perceived support from friends [mean (SD)]f | 3.15 (0.7) | 3.28 (0.6) | 3.27 (0.6) | 3.20 (0.6) |
| Total boys [n (%)] | 84 (16.0) | 442 (84.0) | 421 (80.0) | 105 (20.0) |
a,bSignificant (P < 0.05) chi-square and Bonferroni-adjusted pair-wise comparison (z-test); c,dsignificant (P < 0.05) difference in means (Mann-Whitney U-test), faverage general perceived social support index: 1 = received support none of the time to 4 = received support all of the time in increments of 0.25, MVPA: moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity, SD: standard deviation.