Correlates of Weight-Bearing Physical Activity Among Adolescent Girls: Results From a National Survey of Girls and Their Parents
| Autor: | Simani M. Price, Janet E. Fulton, Judith McDivitt, Holly A. Massett, Deanne Weber, Lisa S. Wolff |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Motivation
education.field_of_study Weight Lifting Population Psychological intervention Physical activity Cognition Health Surveys Bone health Developmental psychology Telephone survey Humans Normative Female Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Parent-Child Relations Child education Psychology Attitude to Health |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Physical Activity and Health. 5:132-145 |
| ISSN: | 1543-5474 1543-3080 |
| DOI: | 10.1123/jpah.5.1.132 |
| Popis: | Background:Despite the potential benefits of reducing the risk of osteoporosis in later life, research on adolescent girls’ weight-bearing physical activity (WBPA) is limited. This study explores correlates for WBPA in this population.Methods:A nationally representative telephone survey sponsored by the National Bone Health Campaign was conducted with 1000 girls age 9 to 12 years and a parent. Girls’ physical activities were coded as weight bearing or not and correlated with cognitive, social, and environmental variables.Results:Regression analysis revealed that WBPA was significantly associated with self-reported parents’ education, parental self-efficacy, girls’ normative beliefs about time spent in physical activity, being physically active with a parent, having physically active friends, and perceived availability of after-school physical activities.Conclusions:Interventions encouraging parents to participate in WBPA with their daughters and increasing parents’ positive attitudes and self-efficacy in getting their daughters to be physically active should be tested. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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