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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Prev Med. 2017 Oct 5;105:337–344. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2017.10.010

Table 4.

Associations of objective and perceived neighborhood environment and psychosocial factors, and their interactions, with context-specific physical activity among male participants.a Baltimore, MD/Washington, DC and Seattle-King County, Washington, 2009–11.

Self-report neighborhood LTPA (n=456) Self-report non-neighborhood LTPA (n=456) Accelerometer-based non-school MVPA (n=435)

B (SE) p B (SE) p B (SE) p
Objective neighborhood environment
Walkability index 0.003 (0.04) .94 −0.002 (0.02) .93 −0.02 (0.39) .95
Recreation facility density 0.01 (0.02) .50 0.02 (0.01) .02 0.12 (0.18) .50
Parent/guardian-perceived neighborhood environment
Traffic safety 0.17 (0.11) .12 0.03 (0.06) .58 0.95 (1.21) .43
Safety from crime −0.11 (0.07) .11 −0.02 (0.04) .69 −0.80 (0.77) .30
Pedestrian safety −0.0001 (0.09) .99 0.05 (0.05) .33 0.67 (0.98) .50
Neighborhood aesthetics 0.02 (0.09) .80 0.06 (0.05) .26 0.43 (1.05) .68
Adolescent psychosocial factors
Social support 0.42 (0.07) <.0001 0.32 (0.04) <.0001 2.39 (0.85) .005
Decisional balance 0.03 (0.09) .72 0.003 (0.05) .96 −0.65 (0.94) .49
Self-efficacy 0.23 (0.07) .0005 0.19 (0.04) <.0001 2.95 (0.74) <.0001
Parental rules −0.05 (0.02) .005 −0.01 (0.01) .23 −0.40 (0.22) .07
Significant interaction
Walkability index X decisional balance - - 0.04 (0.02) .01 - -

Notes: LTPA= leisure-time physical activity, SE = standard error

a

Adjusted for adolescents’ age and work/volunteer status, walkability/income quadrant, site (King County or Maryland regions), and census block (random effect). Independent variables are centered on the grand means for the male sample.