Kan friluftsliv i tidig ålder leda till ett bibehållet intresse som vuxen?
en studie av tidigare elever vid en I Ur och Skur förskola på Lidingö
AimThe aim with the work is to investigate if outdoor life at an early age will contribute to a maintained interest as a grown-up, and what other reasons play a part in maintained/lost interest. Questions:? Are the people active within outdoor life/physical activity today?? How much time do the people devote to outdoor life/physical activity?? What factors during the growth, from preschool to grown-up, contribute to a maintained or lost interest in outdoor life?MethodSince we wanted to bring forth all eventual factors that may have effected the people in their physical activity today we chose to do a qualitative study using deep interviews. The investigated group consists of six former students, four girls and two boys, from the I Ur och Skur preschool Mulleborg. Today the respondents are between 20 and 24 years old.ResultsThe investigation shows that all respondents are active with some kind of outdoor life or physical activity today, but there is a difference in how much. Everyone think it is important to be outside and have the ambition to be active. The activities they practise are walks, riding, play and exercise with a dog, long-distance skating, cycling, running, cross-country skiing, downhill skiing, exercise in a gym, go mushrooming, pick berries, orienteering, climbing and go canoeing. The most important factors that have contributed to the maintained interest in outdoor life are the parents? interests and influences and the time at Mulleborg. Other factors we have found are friends or partner with similar interests, the closeness to nature, owning a dog, having a computer and/or many TV-channels, time for any activities and to become a teenager.ConclusionsFrom the results we can establish that outdoor life at an early age contributes to a maintained interest as a grown-up. We also found other factors that have had effects on this. Our hypothesis, that people who have been in an I Ur och Skur preschool also have an interest in outdoor life or physical activity as a grown-up, has been verified.