1 Louisiana State University AgCenter, School of Nutrition & Food Sciences, 202N Knapp Hall, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA. Electronic address: jstroope@agcenter.lsu.edu.
2 University of Minnesota, School of Kinesiology, Cooke Hall 111, 1900 University Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. Electronic address: garn0079@umn.edu.
3 Concordia University, Substantive Methodological Synergy Research Laboratory, Department of Psychology, 7141 Sherbrooke W, Montreal, QC, H4B1R6, Canada. Electronic address: alexandre.morin@concordia.ca.

Little is known about how the associations between active transportation and community participation may vary across national contexts. Using representative datasets from China, Ghana, India, Mexico, Russia, and South Africa collected in the Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (N = 33,535), we estimated multi-group confirmatory factor analyses, tests of measurement invariance, and predictive models. Standardized coefficients were equivalent across countries and showed a modest positive association between active transportation and community participation (the variance explained by active transportation ranged from 1.3% to 7.5% across countries). These results suggest that supporting active transportation can help mitigate negative environmental and health changes associated with increased vehicular travel and support social capital via community participation.