Table 1.

Correlates of children’s after-school sedentary behavior reported in ≥4 findings

	Overall sedentary behavior		TV viewing
Correlate variables	Ass.	Studies	Ass.	Studies
Sex (male)	+		+	[27]a
	-	[32]	-
	0	[10, 11, 24, 35, 39] [31]h	0	[25], [27]b, [47]
Overall association (≥4 findings)	0		0
Age	+	[10, 35, 46, 48, 49]	+	[27]a, [47]cd
			0	[27]b, [47]efg
Overall association (≥4 findings)	+		?

Children aged 5–12 years

Abbreviations: ‘0’ null association, ‘+’ positive association, ‘-’ negative association

^aAfrican American sample

^bWhite sample

^cAll sample, includes children from Denmark, Portugal, Estonia and Norway

^dEstonia sample

^eDenmark sample

^fNorway sample

^gPortugal sample

^hSample at after-school programs