Research in Australia* has shown that not all kids are the same – they have different activity personalities.

Active Personalities
The following charts outline the three distinct activity personalities for boys and four for girls. By working through the questions you can establish what activity personality your child is.

Working with researchers from the University of South Australia, Associate Professor Jeff Walkley from RMIT University has recommended physical activity for each personality. You can use these charts to help identify not only which activity personality your child is but, more importantly, how you can help them to be more active.

BOYS

GIRLS

Definitions
Sport refers to all organized sport activities e.g. netball, rugby, cricket, tennis etc
Play & active play is more about activities that are unstructured e.g. skateboarding, skipping rope or playing games in the backyard, tag, hopscotch etc

* Research commissioned by the Australian Sports Commission with funding from Coca-Cola Australia, and carried out by the University of South Australia.





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