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Individual, social and environmental predictors of physical activity in severe to morbid obese African American adolescents

Authors :
Jeffrey J. Martin
Kathryn Brogan-Hartlieb
Angela J. Jacques-Tiura
Sylvie Naar-King
Deborah A. Ellis
Kai-Lin Catherine Jen
Source :
Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Kinanthropologica, Vol 52, Iss 2, Pp 5-18 (2016)
Publication Year :
2016
Publisher :
Karolinum Press, 2016.

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to predict low, moderate, hard and very hard physical activity (PA) and walking/biking/jogging based PA. One-hundred and fifty-nine severe to morbid obese African-American adolescents participated. We predicted 8% of the variance in hard PA largely due to family support and 10% of the variance in very hard PA due to other support (e.g. counselor) and having home PA equipment. We also predicted 10% of the variance in walking/biking/jogging due to the walkability of the neighborhood. Our findings support the value of social support and environmental supports in helping obese African American adolescents increase PA.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
12121428 and 23366052
Volume :
52
Issue :
2
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Kinanthropologica
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.1f82535a02904447a2ddfb27bcce859d
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.14712/23366052.2016.7