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Table 2 Data from father interviews

From: “He’s probably more Mr. sport than me” – a qualitative exploration of mothers’ perceptions of fathers’ role in their children’s physical activity

Father interview 1

Father interview 2

Father interview 3

Male/high SEP/medium MVPA

Female/medium SEP/low MVPA

Male/low SEP/low MVPA

Availability/Co-participation

Encouragement

Encouragement

“In terms of like getting home of an evening or over a weekend, he said “dad would go and play” I don’t know “cricket or something out the front”, there is a little plastic cricket set and it will be him instigating that.”

“if she’s watching something, and she’s watched enough, then we will say right that’s enough now, let’s go out, let’s go out in the garden and play instead.”

“I do say he should be more active and let’s go and do this and more often than not he will, yeah, he’ll stop what he was doing and he’ll come with me.”

Facilitation

Co-Participation

Co-Participation

“The thought of dumping him somewhere and leaving him, he probably wouldn’t take to, and that would probably put him off, but if he knew you were going to be there the first few times, he would be happy.”

yeah we go out and we go out and play, run around together, so um, or we’ll go to the park and they ride their scooters and run around in there.”

“Erm, what I do is I erm, we’ve got quite a big back garden and I use the ball, and we either kick it for you know, ground catch, play catch or we’ve got a basketball net here, so erm, yes I’ll just say let’s go out in the garden and err, do something.”