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Article

Learning to Cycle: Are Physical Activity and Birth Order Related to the Age of Learning How to Ride a Bicycle?

by
Cristiana Mercê
1,2,*,
Marco Branco
1,2,
David Catela
2,3,
Frederico Lopes
4,
Luis Paulo Rodrigues
5,6 and
Rita Cordovil
1,4
1
Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudo da Performance Humana, CIPER, Faculdade do Motricidade Humana, Universidade de Lisboa, 1499-002 Cruz-Quebrada, Portugal
2
Escola Superior de Desporto de Rio Maior, Instituto Politécnico de Santarém, 2040-413 Rio Maior, Portugal
3
Motor Behavior, CIEQV, Instituto Politécnico de Santarém Branch, Complexo Andaluz, 2001-904 Santarém, Portugal
4
Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Universidade de Lisboa, 1499-002 Cruz-Quebrada, Portugal
5
Escola Superior de Desporto e Lazer, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, 4960-320 Melgaço, Portugal
6
Research Center in Sports Sciences Health Sciences and Human Development, CIDESD, 5000-801 Vila Real, Portugal
*
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Children 2021, 8(6), 487; https://doi.org/10.3390/children8060487
Submission received: 28 April 2021 / Revised: 28 May 2021 / Accepted: 4 June 2021 / Published: 8 June 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sports Science for Children)
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The present article aimed to verify whether the age at which children learn to ride a bicycle is related to their physical activity or birth order. Data were collected from an online structured survey between November 2019 and June 2020. A total of 8614 responses were obtained from 22 countries. The results reveal significant differences in learning age depending on the frequency of physical activity (F(5, 7235) = 35.12, p < 0.001, ηp2 = 0.24). People who engaged in physical activity less than twice a month learned to cycle later (M = 7.5 ± 5.3 years) than people who engaged in physical activity on a daily basis (M = 5.7 ± 2.2 years) (p < 0.001). There were also significant differences in learning age according to birth order (F(2, 3008) = 7.31, p = 0.00, ηp2 = 0.005). Only children had the highest learning age (M = 5.5 ± 2.4 years), whereas those who were born last had the lowest, (M = 5.1 ± 1.9 years) (p = 0.013). Creating opportunities for children to be engaged in play and physical activity and social modulation through their older siblings seem to be key conditions to encourage children to learn how to ride a bicycle from a young age and to foster their motor development.
Keywords: learning; bicycle; child; birth order; survey learning; bicycle; child; birth order; survey
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Mercê, C.; Branco, M.; Catela, D.; Lopes, F.; Rodrigues, L.P.; Cordovil, R. Learning to Cycle: Are Physical Activity and Birth Order Related to the Age of Learning How to Ride a Bicycle? Children 2021, 8, 487. https://doi.org/10.3390/children8060487

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Mercê C, Branco M, Catela D, Lopes F, Rodrigues LP, Cordovil R. Learning to Cycle: Are Physical Activity and Birth Order Related to the Age of Learning How to Ride a Bicycle? Children. 2021; 8(6):487. https://doi.org/10.3390/children8060487

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Mercê, Cristiana, Marco Branco, David Catela, Frederico Lopes, Luis Paulo Rodrigues, and Rita Cordovil. 2021. "Learning to Cycle: Are Physical Activity and Birth Order Related to the Age of Learning How to Ride a Bicycle?" Children 8, no. 6: 487. https://doi.org/10.3390/children8060487

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Mercê, C., Branco, M., Catela, D., Lopes, F., Rodrigues, L. P., & Cordovil, R. (2021). Learning to Cycle: Are Physical Activity and Birth Order Related to the Age of Learning How to Ride a Bicycle? Children, 8(6), 487. https://doi.org/10.3390/children8060487

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