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“There's kind of a wall I have to stay inside of” : A Qualitative Understanding of Children's Independent Mobility Range, Destination, Time and Expansion Han, Christina; Lin, Yingyi; Mâsse, Louise C.; Brussoni, Mariana

Abstract

Children’s independent mobility (IM) is profoundly connected to their healthy development and wellbeing, and plays a critical role in promoting their further territorial expansion in their neighborhood. In this paper, we explore perspectives of Canadian children aged 10-13 years on their IM in their neighborhood, using interpretive description analysis. This paper discusses three themes yielded from the children’s data: 1) their perceived boundaries for their IM range, 2) utilized places for their IM destinations, and 3) temporal boundaries on their IM created by curfews and check-ins. Our iterative process of data triangulation allowed us to expand beyond the identified themes and original frameworks towards a novel conceptualization of children’s territorial boundary expansion in the context of IM development.

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“There's kind of a wall I have to stay inside of” : A Qualitative Understanding of Children's Independent Mobility Range, Destination, Time and Expansion
Creator
Han, Christina; Lin, Yingyi; Mâsse, Louise C.; Brussoni, Mariana
Contributor
B.C. Injury Research and Prevention Unit; Children's Hospital (Vancouver, B.C.). Research Institute
Date Issued
2020-03-08
Description
Children’s independent mobility (IM) is profoundly connected to their healthy development and wellbeing, and plays a critical role in promoting their further territorial expansion in their neighborhood. In this paper, we explore perspectives of Canadian children aged 10-13 years on their IM in their neighborhood, using interpretive description analysis. This paper discusses three themes yielded from the children’s data: 1) their perceived boundaries for their IM range, 2) utilized places for their IM destinations, and 3) temporal boundaries on their IM created by curfews and check-ins. Our iterative process of data triangulation allowed us to expand beyond the identified themes and original frameworks towards a novel conceptualization of children’s territorial boundary expansion in the context of IM development.
Subject
independent mobility; territorial boundaries; utilized places; children’s curfews; qualitative research methods; Children and youth (0-19); Outdoor/risky play
Genre
Article
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2025-03-12
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0448192
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/90482
Affiliation
Medicine, Faculty of; Other UBC; Non UBC; Pediatrics, Department of; Population and Public Health (SPPH), School of
Citation
Han, C., Lin, Y., Mâsse, L. & Brussoni, M. (2020). “There’s kind of a wall I have to stay inside of”: A qualitative understanding of children’s independent mobility range, destination, time and expansion. Children, Youth and Environments, 30(2), 97-118.
Publisher DOI
10.7721/chilyoutenvi.30.2.0097
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty; Researcher
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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