About the Authors

Gavin Breslin

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

g.breslin@qub.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Psychology, Queens University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Medbh Hillyard

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Bamford Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing, School of Psychology, Ulster University, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, School of Psychology, Ulster University, Coleraine, Northern Ireland

Noel Brick

Contributed equally to this work with: Noel Brick, Stephen Shannon

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Psychology, Ulster University, Coleraine, Northern Ireland

Stephen Shannon

Contributed equally to this work with: Noel Brick, Stephen Shannon

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Bamford Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing, School of Psychology, Ulster University, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, School of Psychology, Ulster University, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, Sport and Exercise Sciences Research Institute, Ulster University, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Brenda McKay-Redmond

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

‡ BMR and BM also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Early Childhood Studies Department, Stranmillis University College, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Mark Shevlin

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Psychology, Ulster University, Coleraine, Northern Ireland

Barbara McConnell

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

‡ BMR and BM also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Early Childhood Studies Department, Stranmillis University College, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: All authors are members of The Daily Mile Network Northern Ireland. We can confirm that our membership of the Daily Mile Network Northern Ireland does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.