Parents and their Children with Disabilities

Parental PA Motivation and PA Level of their Children with Developmental Disabilities

Presenter: Nancy Jimenez

Co-Presenter(s):
Ava Wigley, Eduardo Luciano Venencio, J.T. Bymaster

Presenter Status: Undergraduate student

Academic Year: 20-21

Semester: Spring

Faculty Mentor: Yonjoong Ryuh

Department: Kinesiology

Funding Source/Sponsor: Koret Scholars Program

President's Strategic Plan Goal: Connectivity and Community Engagement

Screenshot URL: https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1cqpMT4Xufg-EC9BPj0dHTicD6x0TxNj7

Abstract:
Our main purpose is to examine whether parental PA motivation significantly predict PA level of
children with developmental disabilities and to find the basic psychological needs that significantly contribute to predicting children’s PA level. Our results involve Ten Participant responses that have been included, this is our preliminary result. Only PA motivation significantly contributed to the prediction equation. 44.3% explains PA level of children with the regression equation. Our limitations are that could not found influential basic psychological needs, as well as, more sample size is needed and control of children’s ages. Our Follow-up plan is to, develop home-based PA program for parent-child pair.