Allison Ro
Biographic Data
| ID | 4264668 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allison Ro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allison |
| FAMILY NAME | Ro |
| SIGNATURE | RO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9645-7691 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Students' Willingness to Intervene in Bullying Within Afterschool Programs
Unstructured playtime at school, such as recess and afterschool activities, is essential for children's social development but often becomes a setting for bullying. Despite effective bystander programs, research on students' willingness to intervene in these contexts remains limited. This cross‐sectional study used mixed methods to investigate the factors influencing students' willingness to intervene in bullying during afterschool programs. Data…
Differences in Schoolchildren's Emotional State After Indoor Versus Outdoor Recess in Extreme‐Heat Weather
BACKGROUND: Children's emotional states are linked to learning and academic success. Outdoor recess is known to support emotional well-being; however, extreme heat can limit access, prompting schools to hold recess indoors. Limited research has examined how recess environments during extreme heat impact children's emotional states. METHODS: This cross-sectional study assessed emotional state via a survey of 317 fourth- and fifth-grade students fr…
Connections between play location during recess, physical activity, and school connectedness: A US case study
School connectedness and physical activity are key contributors to children’s growth and development. Recess is often viewed as a prime opportunity to promote these outcomes, yet minimal research has specifically explored their connection or how children’s play location during recess may contribute. This study examined the relationships between self-reported play locations during outdoor recess, physical activity intensity during recess, and scho…
Virtual Bonds; Real Emotions: Systematic Review Exploring Online Social Connections and Adolescent Mental Health
Adolescent mental health issues have been increasing globally, with one in seven youth experiencing mental health disorders. While social connectedness traditionally serves as a protective factor, the widespread adoption of online platforms has fundamentally transformed how adolescents build and maintain social relationships. This systematic review aimed to synthesize existing literature on the relationship between online social connections and m…
Comprehensive Strategies for Managing School-based Physical Activity during Extreme Heat
Students spend the majority of their waking hours at school, making it a critical setting for promoting physical activity across multiple contexts (e.g., recess, physical education, before- and after-school programs, and sports). However, extreme heat conditions pose significant challenges for schools in ensuring these PA opportunities remain both safe and accessible. To ensure students can stay active in hot conditions, school staff should be aw…
“I Need the Shade”: Experiences and Perceptions of Elementary School Children During Recess in Hot Weather
BACKGROUND: Few studies have investigated how heat impacts play from the perspective of children. The purpose of this study was to explore children's experiences of recess play during high temperatures. METHODS: We used the draw-and-tell method to retrospectively explore the experiences of recess during hot weather among students (N = 38) between the ages of 5-12 attending four elementary schools in one school district in Arizona (United States).…
Dialectics as a tool for navigating the mandates of scholarship and community impact: Learning from reflexive practices
Universities are increasingly demanding that faculty fulfill multiple mandates including producing scholarly published work and demonstrating community impact. As such, faculty experience the challenges of community involvement and impact, while also ensuring that community involvement leads to published research. This manuscript discusses a participatory action research (PAR) project that failed to achieve its initial outcome goal of community i…
A natural experiment to assess recess frequency on children’s physical activity in Arizona (U.S.) elementary schools
Students attending elementary schools implementing 2 + recesses, in accordance with state policy, demonstrated greater MVPA and less sedentary time, providing preliminary evidence that recess frequency is associated with greater PA intensity among children during recess. Schools that adhere to state-level PA policies may provide a more supportive environment for PA, resulting in increased movement among students. Specifying recess frequency shoul…
Enhancing School Connectedness Through Recreation-Based Learning: Practical Strategies Guided by Theory and Practice
Creating school connectedness can enhance the overall development and academic progress for youth. The purpose of this article is to provide teachers with both a theoretical and applied understanding of how to develop and support school connectedness with students through recreation-based learning activities. The theoretical concepts grounded within Self-Determination Theory that can support the need for student relatedness (e.g., feeling cared f…
Linking Sustainability and Happiness: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives
Building School Connectedness Through Structured Recreation During School: A Concurrent Mixed‐Methods Study
BACKGROUND: School connectedness (SC) is associated with improved health and academic outcomes. The purposes of this study were to explore factors contributing to students' perceptions of SC and if participation in structured recreation at school was associated with SC. METHODS: We used concurrent mixed-methods including cross-sectional qualitative data to explore factors contributing to SC among fifth- and sixth-grade students at 2 schools in Ph…
Predictors of Active Transportation Among Safe Routes to School Participants in Arizona: Impacts of Distance and Income
BACKGROUND: Active transportation to school (ATS) is a component of a whole school approach to health promotion among youth. METHODS: Individual- and school-level predictors of ATS were examined using data from parent surveys (N = 11,100) of students in grades 3-8 attending 112 schools in Arizona (United States) administering Safe Routes to School (SRTS) programs between 2007 and 2018. Multilevel logistic models were estimated to predict the like…
Exploring a Dance/Movement Program on Mental Health and Well-Being in Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence During a Pandemic
This complex study was successfully completed during a global pandemic and resulted in improvements in some mental health symptoms and overall well-being. Given the importance of this work with intimate partner violence survivors, further work exploring dance/movement workshops for participants virtually and in-person is needed
A cluster randomized controlled trial of an after-school playground curriculum intervention to improve children’s physical, social, and emotional health: Study protocol for the PLAYground project
ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT ID NCT05470621 , Registered July 22, 2022
Effectiveness of Disseminating School Physical Activity Information on Facebook during a Pandemic: A Mixed‐Method Analysis
BACKGROUND: Social media is an important communication tool during times of crisis because of its vast reach. Understanding the effectiveness of sharing public health guidance and promoting schoolchildren's physical activity during the COVID-19 pandemic can inform dissemination best practices. METHODS: We classified 418 posts from parent/community members of a school-based physical activity Facebook group by content type, and used concurrent mixe…
The influence of peer and coach relationships in after-school sports on perceptions of school climate
Objective: Sport is an important source of physical, social and emotional health and well-being among children. Sports participation at school may provide young people with the opportunity to build interpersonal skills and develop supportive social relationships with peers and adults, which may translate to positive experiences during the school day. School climate represents the relationships, values and beliefs within a school system and is ass…
Linking Sustainability and Happiness: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives
Walking mediates associations between the neighborhood environment and flourishing
Perceptions of neighborhood built and social environment are associated with flourishing. • Frequency and type of walking may explain the relationship. • Frequent walking has significant indirect effects on built environments and flourishing. • Frequent walking has significant indirect effects on neighboring and flourishing. Considerable attention has been directed toward the neighborhood as a critical context affecting health and wellbeing. The …
The Moderating Effect of Distance on Features of the Built Environment and Active School Transport
Despite growing research supporting the impact of the built environment on active school transport (AST), distance persists as the most powerful predictor of walking and biking to school. There is a need to better understand how environmental features interact with distance to affect AST, and whether the influence of environmental factors persist across different distance thresholds. Multilevel models using cluster-robust standard errors were use…
The indirect influence of child play on the association between parent perceptions of the neighborhood environment and sense of community
The Impact of Neighboring on Changes in Sense of Community Over Time: A Latent Transition Analysis
The association between leisure time physical activity and happiness: Testing the indirect role of health perception
AIMS: Research supports the influence of leisure time physical activity (LTPA) on well-being; however, little is known about the mechanisms that drive the relationship. The aim of this study was to investigate the indirect influence of health perception on the association between neighborhood LTPA and happiness. METHODS: Telephone interviews were conducted using random digit dialing among a sample of adult residents aged 18+ (n = 570) to gather i…
A virtue ethical account of making decisions about risk
133 páginas incluye ilustraciones y diagramas
Cell Phones, Clothing, and Sex: First Impressions of Power using Older African Americans as Stimuli
Sex, material possessions, and race have long been associated with prestige or status in American society, yet little research has examined this idea. Little is known about the effect of cell phones on first impressions. In a 2 (cell phone: present, absent) x 2 (clothing: jacket, no jacket) x 2 (sex) between-subjects design, 160 women from a predominantly Black college rated stimuli of older, African Americans on 15 items measuring perceived powe…
Cell Phones, Clothing, and Sex: First Impressions of Power Using Older African Americans as Stimuli
The Impact of Neighboring on Changes in Sense of Community Over Time: A Latent Transition Analysis
A virtue ethical account of making decisions about risk
133 páginas incluye ilustraciones y diagramas
The indirect influence of child play on the association between parent perceptions of the neighborhood environment and sense of community
Cell Phones, Clothing, and Sex: First Impressions of Power using Older African Americans as Stimuli
Sex, material possessions, and race have long been associated with prestige or status in American society, yet little research has examined this idea. Little is known about the effect of cell phones on first impressions. In a 2 (cell phone: present, absent) x 2 (clothing: jacket, no jacket) x 2 (sex) between-subjects design, 160 women from a predominantly Black college rated stimuli of older, African Americans on 15 items measuring perceived powe…
Cell Phones, Clothing, and Sex: First Impressions of Power Using Older African Americans as Stimuli
A virtue ethical account of making decisions about risk
133 páginas incluye ilustraciones y diagramas
The association between leisure time physical activity and happiness: Testing the indirect role of health perception
AIMS: Research supports the influence of leisure time physical activity (LTPA) on well-being; however, little is known about the mechanisms that drive the relationship. The aim of this study was to investigate the indirect influence of health perception on the association between neighborhood LTPA and happiness. METHODS: Telephone interviews were conducted using random digit dialing among a sample of adult residents aged 18+ (n = 570) to gather i…
Walking mediates associations between the neighborhood environment and flourishing
Perceptions of neighborhood built and social environment are associated with flourishing. • Frequency and type of walking may explain the relationship. • Frequent walking has significant indirect effects on built environments and flourishing. • Frequent walking has significant indirect effects on neighboring and flourishing. Considerable attention has been directed toward the neighborhood as a critical context affecting health and wellbeing. The …
The Moderating Effect of Distance on Features of the Built Environment and Active School Transport
Despite growing research supporting the impact of the built environment on active school transport (AST), distance persists as the most powerful predictor of walking and biking to school. There is a need to better understand how environmental features interact with distance to affect AST, and whether the influence of environmental factors persist across different distance thresholds. Multilevel models using cluster-robust standard errors were use…
The indirect influence of child play on the association between parent perceptions of the neighborhood environment and sense of community
The Impact of Neighboring on Changes in Sense of Community Over Time: A Latent Transition Analysis
Effectiveness of Disseminating School Physical Activity Information on Facebook during a Pandemic: A Mixed‐Method Analysis
BACKGROUND: Social media is an important communication tool during times of crisis because of its vast reach. Understanding the effectiveness of sharing public health guidance and promoting schoolchildren's physical activity during the COVID-19 pandemic can inform dissemination best practices. METHODS: We classified 418 posts from parent/community members of a school-based physical activity Facebook group by content type, and used concurrent mixe…
The influence of peer and coach relationships in after-school sports on perceptions of school climate
Objective: Sport is an important source of physical, social and emotional health and well-being among children. Sports participation at school may provide young people with the opportunity to build interpersonal skills and develop supportive social relationships with peers and adults, which may translate to positive experiences during the school day. School climate represents the relationships, values and beliefs within a school system and is ass…
Linking Sustainability and Happiness: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives
Linking Sustainability and Happiness: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives
Building School Connectedness Through Structured Recreation During School: A Concurrent Mixed‐Methods Study
BACKGROUND: School connectedness (SC) is associated with improved health and academic outcomes. The purposes of this study were to explore factors contributing to students' perceptions of SC and if participation in structured recreation at school was associated with SC. METHODS: We used concurrent mixed-methods including cross-sectional qualitative data to explore factors contributing to SC among fifth- and sixth-grade students at 2 schools in Ph…
Predictors of Active Transportation Among Safe Routes to School Participants in Arizona: Impacts of Distance and Income
BACKGROUND: Active transportation to school (ATS) is a component of a whole school approach to health promotion among youth. METHODS: Individual- and school-level predictors of ATS were examined using data from parent surveys (N = 11,100) of students in grades 3-8 attending 112 schools in Arizona (United States) administering Safe Routes to School (SRTS) programs between 2007 and 2018. Multilevel logistic models were estimated to predict the like…
Exploring a Dance/Movement Program on Mental Health and Well-Being in Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence During a Pandemic
This complex study was successfully completed during a global pandemic and resulted in improvements in some mental health symptoms and overall well-being. Given the importance of this work with intimate partner violence survivors, further work exploring dance/movement workshops for participants virtually and in-person is needed
A cluster randomized controlled trial of an after-school playground curriculum intervention to improve children’s physical, social, and emotional health: Study protocol for the PLAYground project
ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT ID NCT05470621 , Registered July 22, 2022
Enhancing School Connectedness Through Recreation-Based Learning: Practical Strategies Guided by Theory and Practice
Creating school connectedness can enhance the overall development and academic progress for youth. The purpose of this article is to provide teachers with both a theoretical and applied understanding of how to develop and support school connectedness with students through recreation-based learning activities. The theoretical concepts grounded within Self-Determination Theory that can support the need for student relatedness (e.g., feeling cared f…
Dialectics as a tool for navigating the mandates of scholarship and community impact: Learning from reflexive practices
Universities are increasingly demanding that faculty fulfill multiple mandates including producing scholarly published work and demonstrating community impact. As such, faculty experience the challenges of community involvement and impact, while also ensuring that community involvement leads to published research. This manuscript discusses a participatory action research (PAR) project that failed to achieve its initial outcome goal of community i…
A natural experiment to assess recess frequency on children’s physical activity in Arizona (U.S.) elementary schools
Students attending elementary schools implementing 2 + recesses, in accordance with state policy, demonstrated greater MVPA and less sedentary time, providing preliminary evidence that recess frequency is associated with greater PA intensity among children during recess. Schools that adhere to state-level PA policies may provide a more supportive environment for PA, resulting in increased movement among students. Specifying recess frequency shoul…
Connections between play location during recess, physical activity, and school connectedness: A US case study
School connectedness and physical activity are key contributors to children’s growth and development. Recess is often viewed as a prime opportunity to promote these outcomes, yet minimal research has specifically explored their connection or how children’s play location during recess may contribute. This study examined the relationships between self-reported play locations during outdoor recess, physical activity intensity during recess, and scho…
Virtual Bonds; Real Emotions: Systematic Review Exploring Online Social Connections and Adolescent Mental Health
Adolescent mental health issues have been increasing globally, with one in seven youth experiencing mental health disorders. While social connectedness traditionally serves as a protective factor, the widespread adoption of online platforms has fundamentally transformed how adolescents build and maintain social relationships. This systematic review aimed to synthesize existing literature on the relationship between online social connections and m…
Comprehensive Strategies for Managing School-based Physical Activity during Extreme Heat
Students spend the majority of their waking hours at school, making it a critical setting for promoting physical activity across multiple contexts (e.g., recess, physical education, before- and after-school programs, and sports). However, extreme heat conditions pose significant challenges for schools in ensuring these PA opportunities remain both safe and accessible. To ensure students can stay active in hot conditions, school staff should be aw…
“I Need the Shade”: Experiences and Perceptions of Elementary School Children During Recess in Hot Weather
BACKGROUND: Few studies have investigated how heat impacts play from the perspective of children. The purpose of this study was to explore children's experiences of recess play during high temperatures. METHODS: We used the draw-and-tell method to retrospectively explore the experiences of recess during hot weather among students (N = 38) between the ages of 5-12 attending four elementary schools in one school district in Arizona (United States).…
Students' Willingness to Intervene in Bullying Within Afterschool Programs
Unstructured playtime at school, such as recess and afterschool activities, is essential for children's social development but often becomes a setting for bullying. Despite effective bystander programs, research on students' willingness to intervene in these contexts remains limited. This cross‐sectional study used mixed methods to investigate the factors influencing students' willingness to intervene in bullying during afterschool programs. Data…
Differences in Schoolchildren's Emotional State After Indoor Versus Outdoor Recess in Extreme‐Heat Weather
BACKGROUND: Children's emotional states are linked to learning and academic success. Outdoor recess is known to support emotional well-being; however, extreme heat can limit access, prompting schools to hold recess indoors. Limited research has examined how recess environments during extreme heat impact children's emotional states. METHODS: This cross-sectional study assessed emotional state via a survey of 317 fourth- and fifth-grade students fr…
Psychology (18 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Youth Development and Social Support (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Public health (5 works)