Body image, body composition and environment: do they affect adolescents' physical activity?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most adolescents are less physically active than recommended, despite the strong effort of various stakeholders to promote physical activity (PA). Body image and body composition may play an important role not only in directly facilitating adolescents' PA but also in enabling environment-related factors. As evidence is lacking, we aimed to assess the associations of adolescents' PA with body-related and environment-related factors, whether this differs by age and gender, and whether these factors interact.

Methods

We used data on 888 11- to 15-year-old adolescents (mean age = 13.5, 56% boys) from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study conducted in 2018 in Slovakia. We used multinomial logistic regression analysis to assess the association of adolescent

SUBMITTER: Karchynskaya V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9159304 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature