Sedentary behavior and physical activity predicting depressive symptoms in adolescents beyond attributes of health-related physical fitness.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sedentary behavior (SB), physical activity (PA), and attributes of physical fitness have been shown to be related to depressive symptoms in adolescents. The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether SB and fitness-producing activity predicted depression in active adolescents over and above gender and fitness attributes.

Methods

Participants were 249 adolescents (age: 12.85 ± 0.89 years, mean ± SD) from 3 public middle schools who wore Actical accelerometers to assess their SB and PA. Participants also completed the FITNESSGRAM health-related fitness assessment and a brief depression questionnaire. A 3-step hierarchical regression analysis was conducted with gender and fitness attributes (i.e., body mass index (BMI), maximal volume oxygen uptake (VO

SUBMITTER: Farren GL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6226422 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature