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Preschool children who are more physically active are more likely to show behavioural problems, a study has found.<\/p>\n
The study, published in Developmental Disabilities<\/em>, found that increased risk-oriented physical activity, in four -and five-year-olds, such as bike-riding could lead to behaviours including tantrums, disobedience, bullying and arguing with adults<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Monash University researchers, led by Dr Mong-Lin Yu from the Department of Occupational Therapy, examined the way almost 5000 pre-schoolers spent their time using the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children data.<\/p>\n The study also observed Australian children who spend more time alone with adults, and less time playing with peers under supervision, are more likely to exhibit behavioural issues<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Dr Yu said bike riding should be encouraged, but parents should look for warning signs including risky riding and riding for excitement seeking<\/strong>.<\/p>\n “Bike riding is a beneficial activity for young children, but it can be detrimental to their behavioural development if they ride bikes without adequate parental support,” Dr Yu said.<\/p>\n The purpose of the study was to determine if children at risk of developing behavioural problems have different activity patterns compared to those not at risk.<\/p>\n Specific aspects of time-use, which concern involvement in activities that provide physical exertion, structure, rest and social engagement were examined.<\/p>\n Gender differences were also found in the same activities, with boys participating in more \u2018\u2018bike riding\u2019\u2019 and activities \u2018\u2018without peers under adult supervision\u2019\u2019 than girls.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the Monash University press release via MedicalXpress: Preschool children who are more physically active are more likely to show behavioural problems, a study has found. The study, published in… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[45,160,136,73],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2859,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions\/2859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}