The role of physical activity enjoyment in the pathways from the social and physical environments to physical activity of early adolescent girls.

ABSTRACT: Most girls experience a notable decline in physical activity (PA) in early adolescence, increasing their risk for harmful health outcomes. Enjoyment for PA (i.e., positive feelings toward PA) is a determinant of PA among girls during adolescence and sustained PA throughout adulthood. Previous studies recommended increasing girls' PA enjoyment in order to increase their PA, but did not include environmental-level strategies for how families, schools, or communities do this. To gain insight on such strategies, this study examines the role of PA enjoyment as a mediator of social and physical environments to moderate-to-vigorous intensity PA of early adolescent girls. Cross-sectional, secondary analyses, using structural equation modeling, were conducted on a U.S. national dataset of 1721 sixt

SUBMITTER: Budd EL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5985153 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature