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Table 2 Spearman’s correlations between the PA of the mothers and fathers and their children

From: Parental physical activity is associated with objectively measured physical activity in young children in a sex-specific manner: the GECKO Drenthe cohort

	All children
	TPA	Sedentary behaviour	LPA	MPA	VPA	MVPA
Physical activity (PA) Mother
Total PA	0.018	−0.013	0.023	0.016	0.030	0.020
Light PA	0.003	0.024	0.004	−0.023	0.003	−0.020
Moderate PA	0.000	−0.070	0.042	0.041	0.007	0.035
Vigorous PA	0.047	−0.038	0.004	0.072	0.068	0.072
Moderate-to-vigorous PA	0.019	−0.076	0.044	0.062	0.020	0.052
Sports	0.040	−0.083*	0.070	0.058	0.066	0.064
Leisure time PA	0.052	−0.082*	0.067	0.073	0.065	0.079*
Active commuting	−0.050	0.085*	−0.032	− 0.048	− 0.011	−0.030
Physical activity (PA) Father
Total PA	0.010	0.013	0.078	−0.046	0.010	−0.022
Light PA	−0.032	0.051	0.025	−0.098*	−0.031	− 0.079
Moderate PA	0.027	−0.021	0.011	0.030	0.011	0.030
Vigorous PA	0.024	−0.014	0.038	0.066	0.056	0.064
Moderate-to-vigorous PA	0.041	−0.028	0.019	0.056	0.035	0.056
Sports	−0.010	0.000	0.000	0.041	0.049	0.040
Leisure time PA	−0.002	− 0.039	0.080	− 0.021	0.015	0.001
Active commuting	−0.034	0.064	−0.024	−0.040	− 0.038	−0.040

All the participants were recruited from the GECKO Drenthe birth cohort (babies born between 1 April 2006 and 1 April 2007 in Drenthe, the Netherlands) and measured for PA between 2009 and 2012 when aged 4–7 years
*p < 0.05, values indicate Spearman’s rho

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