Author: Kellie Walters
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Relationship Between Physical Activity and Psychosocial Health in Adolescent Girls and Their Mothers
Psychosocial Factors and Physical Activity Among Black Adolescent Females
Author: Rennae A. Williams
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ISBN:
Category : African American teenagers
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
"The purpose of this study was to develop a better understanding of the physical activity behavior of Black female adolescents age 14-18 in the Charlotte, NC public school community by examining the relationship between physical activity and self-efficacy, social support, outcome expectations, and physical environment. The study sample consisted of 96 girls ages 14-19 from a public high school in Charlotte, North Carolina. Participants volunteered to complete a survey with demographic, physical activity (PA), and psychosocial questions. The predictor variables were self-efficacy and physical activity self-efficacy, social support, outcome expectations, and physical environment. The dependent variable was physical activity participation. Correlational analysis was employed to examine the relationship of the four predictor variables to physical activity. Self-efficacy was shown to be correlated with PA. The strongest correlation was between physical activity self-efficacy and PA. Correlations between outcome expectations and PA for the total sample were low and not significant. Total social support, family and friend social support were correlated with PA as well. Physical environment was not significantly related with PA for the Black adolescents in this study. Multiple regression was used to determine the relative strength of the four main predictor variables on the dependent variable of physical activity level. For the total sample, the four predictor variables explained 24% of the variance in physical activity participation. Of these variables, physical activity self-efficacy makes the largest unique contribution (beta=.36) with a significance level of .002. In order to understand PA habits and perceptions among Black adolescent females, the last section of the survey included 14 open-ended questions. Most Black participants understand the health benefits of physical activity, but cited tiring and sweating factors as reasons why they do not participate in physical activity. Findings suggest increasing physical activity self-efficacy and providing social support, as well as allowing girls to have a choice in their physical activity and offering activities they consider fun, may lead to increased physical activity among Black adolescent girls."--Abstract from author supplied metadata.
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ISBN:
Category : African American teenagers
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
"The purpose of this study was to develop a better understanding of the physical activity behavior of Black female adolescents age 14-18 in the Charlotte, NC public school community by examining the relationship between physical activity and self-efficacy, social support, outcome expectations, and physical environment. The study sample consisted of 96 girls ages 14-19 from a public high school in Charlotte, North Carolina. Participants volunteered to complete a survey with demographic, physical activity (PA), and psychosocial questions. The predictor variables were self-efficacy and physical activity self-efficacy, social support, outcome expectations, and physical environment. The dependent variable was physical activity participation. Correlational analysis was employed to examine the relationship of the four predictor variables to physical activity. Self-efficacy was shown to be correlated with PA. The strongest correlation was between physical activity self-efficacy and PA. Correlations between outcome expectations and PA for the total sample were low and not significant. Total social support, family and friend social support were correlated with PA as well. Physical environment was not significantly related with PA for the Black adolescents in this study. Multiple regression was used to determine the relative strength of the four main predictor variables on the dependent variable of physical activity level. For the total sample, the four predictor variables explained 24% of the variance in physical activity participation. Of these variables, physical activity self-efficacy makes the largest unique contribution (beta=.36) with a significance level of .002. In order to understand PA habits and perceptions among Black adolescent females, the last section of the survey included 14 open-ended questions. Most Black participants understand the health benefits of physical activity, but cited tiring and sweating factors as reasons why they do not participate in physical activity. Findings suggest increasing physical activity self-efficacy and providing social support, as well as allowing girls to have a choice in their physical activity and offering activities they consider fun, may lead to increased physical activity among Black adolescent girls."--Abstract from author supplied metadata.
Physical Activity and Sport in the Lives of Girls
Author: President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Obesity in Childhood and Adolescence
Author: Wieland Kiess
Publisher: Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
ISBN: 3805577303
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Obesity in childhood and adolescence has reached epidemic proportions in all industrialized countries around the world. Its impact on individual lives as well as on health economics has to be recognized by physicians and the public alike. Among the most common consequences of obesity in the adolescent are hypertension, dyslipidemia, back pain and psychosocial problems. Therapeutic strategies include psychological and family therapy, lifestyle/behavior modification and nutrition education. The role of regular exercise and exercise programs is emphasized. Surgical procedures and drugs used in adult obesity are still not generally recommended for obese adolescents. This book aims to increase physicians knowledge and understanding of obesity in childhood and adolescence as well as to further public awareness of the health burden and economic dimension of obesity at a young age. Several chapters deliver insights into the basic understanding of which factors contribute to or prevent the development of overweight and obesity in young people. Other contributions provide tools for the clinician to manage the care of the child and adolescent with overweight/obesity. In addition, knowledge from the latest scientific studies on the molecular biology of obesity is also presented.
Publisher: Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
ISBN: 3805577303
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Obesity in childhood and adolescence has reached epidemic proportions in all industrialized countries around the world. Its impact on individual lives as well as on health economics has to be recognized by physicians and the public alike. Among the most common consequences of obesity in the adolescent are hypertension, dyslipidemia, back pain and psychosocial problems. Therapeutic strategies include psychological and family therapy, lifestyle/behavior modification and nutrition education. The role of regular exercise and exercise programs is emphasized. Surgical procedures and drugs used in adult obesity are still not generally recommended for obese adolescents. This book aims to increase physicians knowledge and understanding of obesity in childhood and adolescence as well as to further public awareness of the health burden and economic dimension of obesity at a young age. Several chapters deliver insights into the basic understanding of which factors contribute to or prevent the development of overweight and obesity in young people. Other contributions provide tools for the clinician to manage the care of the child and adolescent with overweight/obesity. In addition, knowledge from the latest scientific studies on the molecular biology of obesity is also presented.
Fat Talk
Author: Mimi Nichter
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674041542
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Teen-aged girls hate their bodies and diet obsessively, or so we hear. News stories and reports of survey research often claim that as many as three girls in five are on a diet at any given time, and they grimly suggest that many are “at risk” for eating disorders. But how much can we believe these frightening stories? What do teenagers mean when they say they are dieting? Anthropologist Mimi Nichter spent three years interviewing middle school and high school girls—lower-middle to middle class, white, black, and Latina—about their feelings concerning appearance, their eating habits, and dieting. In Fat Talk, she tells us what the girls told her, and explores the influence of peers, family, and the media on girls’ sense of self. Letting girls speak for themselves, she gives us the human side of survey statistics. Most of the white girls in her study disliked something about their bodies and knew all too well that they did not look like the envied, hated “perfect girl.” But they did not diet so much as talk about dieting. Nichter wryly argues—in fact some of the girls as much as tell her—that “fat talk” is a kind of social ritual among friends, a way of being, or creating solidarity. It allows the girls to show that they are concerned about their weight, but it lessens the urgency to do anything about it, other than diet from breakfast to lunch. Nichter concludes that if anything, girls are watching their weight and what they eat, as well as trying to get some exercise and eat “healthfully” in a way that sounds much less disturbing than stories about the epidemic of eating disorders among American girls. Black girls, Nichter learned, escape the weight obsession and the “fat talk” that is so pervasive among white girls. The African-American girls she talked with were much more satisfied with their bodies than were the white girls. For them, beauty was a matter of projecting attitude (“’tude”) and moving with confidence and style. Fat Talk takes the reader into the lives of girls as daughters, providing insights into how parents talk to their teenagers about their changing bodies. The black girls admired their mothers’ strength; the white girls described their mothers’ own “fat talk,” their fathers’ uncomfortable teasing, and the way they and their mothers sometimes dieted together to escape the family “curse”—flabby thighs, ample hips. Moving beyond negative stereotypes of mother–daughter relationships, Nichter sensitively examines the issues and struggles that mothers face in bringing up their daughters, particularly in relation to body image, and considers how they can help their daughters move beyond rigid and stereotyped images of ideal beauty.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674041542
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Teen-aged girls hate their bodies and diet obsessively, or so we hear. News stories and reports of survey research often claim that as many as three girls in five are on a diet at any given time, and they grimly suggest that many are “at risk” for eating disorders. But how much can we believe these frightening stories? What do teenagers mean when they say they are dieting? Anthropologist Mimi Nichter spent three years interviewing middle school and high school girls—lower-middle to middle class, white, black, and Latina—about their feelings concerning appearance, their eating habits, and dieting. In Fat Talk, she tells us what the girls told her, and explores the influence of peers, family, and the media on girls’ sense of self. Letting girls speak for themselves, she gives us the human side of survey statistics. Most of the white girls in her study disliked something about their bodies and knew all too well that they did not look like the envied, hated “perfect girl.” But they did not diet so much as talk about dieting. Nichter wryly argues—in fact some of the girls as much as tell her—that “fat talk” is a kind of social ritual among friends, a way of being, or creating solidarity. It allows the girls to show that they are concerned about their weight, but it lessens the urgency to do anything about it, other than diet from breakfast to lunch. Nichter concludes that if anything, girls are watching their weight and what they eat, as well as trying to get some exercise and eat “healthfully” in a way that sounds much less disturbing than stories about the epidemic of eating disorders among American girls. Black girls, Nichter learned, escape the weight obsession and the “fat talk” that is so pervasive among white girls. The African-American girls she talked with were much more satisfied with their bodies than were the white girls. For them, beauty was a matter of projecting attitude (“’tude”) and moving with confidence and style. Fat Talk takes the reader into the lives of girls as daughters, providing insights into how parents talk to their teenagers about their changing bodies. The black girls admired their mothers’ strength; the white girls described their mothers’ own “fat talk,” their fathers’ uncomfortable teasing, and the way they and their mothers sometimes dieted together to escape the family “curse”—flabby thighs, ample hips. Moving beyond negative stereotypes of mother–daughter relationships, Nichter sensitively examines the issues and struggles that mothers face in bringing up their daughters, particularly in relation to body image, and considers how they can help their daughters move beyond rigid and stereotyped images of ideal beauty.
Physical Activity & Sport in the Lives of Girls
Author: President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Girls
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Girls
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports Report
Author: President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Growth, Maturation, and Physical Activity
Author: Robert M. Malina
Publisher: Human Kinetics
ISBN: 9780880118828
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
This updated edition features three new chapters and current research findings. Topics include prenatal growth and functional development, motor development, thermoregulation, obesity in childhood and adolescence and more.
Publisher: Human Kinetics
ISBN: 9780880118828
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
This updated edition features three new chapters and current research findings. Topics include prenatal growth and functional development, motor development, thermoregulation, obesity in childhood and adolescence and more.
Parental Support and Youth Physical Activity
Author: Alisha D. May
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781267020246
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
Current research shows that adolescents are not engaging in enough physical activity which has led researchers to explore factors that can lead to an increase in participation. When psychosocial factors have been researched in terms of adolescent physical activity participation, it has been found that parents play an important role. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between parental support and young adolescents' physical activity behaviors. In this study a total of ninety-eight 5th and 6th grade student participants (n = 54 male, n = 44 female) ranging in age from 10 to 14 years (M age=11.7 yrs, SD =0.65) from the Rocky Mountain U.S. were administered questionnaires. Parents of all student participants were also asked to participate in this study, and 112 (n = 19 father, n = 94 mother) parent responses were received. Student participants completed a questionnaire which assessed importance and enjoyment of physical activity, perceived parental social support, and physical activity levels. Parent participants completed a questionnaire which assessed support for their child's physical activity, importance and enjoyment of physical activity for them and for their child, relative importance of physical activity for their child, and parent physical activity levels. Overall, participants reported engaging in 69.28 min of MVPA per day for children, 59.91 min of MVPA per day for fathers and 37.13 min of MVPA for mothers. When MVPA was reported solely by the parent there was a significant correlation between parent and child MVPA (Mother-child r = .27, p
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781267020246
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
Current research shows that adolescents are not engaging in enough physical activity which has led researchers to explore factors that can lead to an increase in participation. When psychosocial factors have been researched in terms of adolescent physical activity participation, it has been found that parents play an important role. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between parental support and young adolescents' physical activity behaviors. In this study a total of ninety-eight 5th and 6th grade student participants (n = 54 male, n = 44 female) ranging in age from 10 to 14 years (M age=11.7 yrs, SD =0.65) from the Rocky Mountain U.S. were administered questionnaires. Parents of all student participants were also asked to participate in this study, and 112 (n = 19 father, n = 94 mother) parent responses were received. Student participants completed a questionnaire which assessed importance and enjoyment of physical activity, perceived parental social support, and physical activity levels. Parent participants completed a questionnaire which assessed support for their child's physical activity, importance and enjoyment of physical activity for them and for their child, relative importance of physical activity for their child, and parent physical activity levels. Overall, participants reported engaging in 69.28 min of MVPA per day for children, 59.91 min of MVPA per day for fathers and 37.13 min of MVPA for mothers. When MVPA was reported solely by the parent there was a significant correlation between parent and child MVPA (Mother-child r = .27, p
Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity in Childhood and Adolescence
Author: Wieland Kiess
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783318027983
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Despite the fact that the prevalence of obesity in early childhood has been stable and is no longer increasing in many developed and industrialized countries, the incidence of both obesity and full-blown metabolic syndrome in children and adolescents is still very high. Obesity is a major disease burden in all societies and needs to be prevented early in life. New approaches are eagerly sought and absolutely necessary.This book presents a comprehensive and state-of-the-art summary of current and new knowledge in this critical field. Crucial issues such as nutrition and genetics are described in detail. In addition, new ideas such as e-health and the consequences of urban living conditions are explored. Last but not least, modern treatment concepts and prevention even at an early age are competently discussed.Offering a valuable update on new developments in obesity research and the treatment in children and adolescents, this book is essential reading for all pediatricians and health-care professionals who look after young patients on a regular basis.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783318027983
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Despite the fact that the prevalence of obesity in early childhood has been stable and is no longer increasing in many developed and industrialized countries, the incidence of both obesity and full-blown metabolic syndrome in children and adolescents is still very high. Obesity is a major disease burden in all societies and needs to be prevented early in life. New approaches are eagerly sought and absolutely necessary.This book presents a comprehensive and state-of-the-art summary of current and new knowledge in this critical field. Crucial issues such as nutrition and genetics are described in detail. In addition, new ideas such as e-health and the consequences of urban living conditions are explored. Last but not least, modern treatment concepts and prevention even at an early age are competently discussed.Offering a valuable update on new developments in obesity research and the treatment in children and adolescents, this book is essential reading for all pediatricians and health-care professionals who look after young patients on a regular basis.