Psychosocial and demographic correlates of objectively measured physical activity in structured and unstructured after-school recreation sessions

dc.citation.doidoi:10.1016/j.jsams.2011.01.005en_US
dc.citation.epage311en_US
dc.citation.issue4en_US
dc.citation.jtitleJournal of Science and Medicine in Sporten_US
dc.citation.spage306en_US
dc.citation.volume14en_US
dc.contributor.authorRosenkranz, Richard R.
dc.contributor.authorWelk, Greg J.
dc.contributor.authorHastmann, Tanis J.
dc.contributor.authorDzewaltowski, David A.
dc.contributor.authoreidricardoen_US
dc.date.accessioned2011-08-29T15:14:25Z
dc.date.available2011-08-29T15:14:25Z
dc.date.issued2011-08-29
dc.date.published2011en_US
dc.description.abstractMost studies of psychosocial and demographic correlates of physical activity (PA) have examined relationships across various types of physical and social environments, rather than within a specific environmental behavior setting. The objective of this study was to investigate correlates of PA in structured and unstructured after-school recreation sessions. This study is cross-sectional. School records, questionnaires, and anthropometry were used to obtain demographic and psychosocial variables. Third and fourth-grade children (n = 230) from seven schools wore Actigraph GT1M accelerometers up to six times per year during after-school programming. Accelerometer data were processed to determine percentage of time in moderate-to-vigorous PA (T scores, reflective of an individual child's PA level relative to group mean, were computed for each session and averaged across sessions). Pearson correlations, point-biserial correlations, and mixed-model analyses were used to determine significant associations with PA for each session type (structured and unstructured). For structured sessions, gender, PA barriers self-efficacy, and PA enjoyment were significantly related to PA. For unstructured sessions, only gender was related to PA. Despite equivalent opportunities to participate in active recreation, boys were more active than girls, and children varied in PA level partly due to psychosocial factors. Our results showed that PA self-efficacy and enjoyment explained variability in structured PA sessions.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2097/12065
dc.relation.urihttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1440244011000259en_US
dc.subjectChildrenen_US
dc.subjectPhysical activityen_US
dc.subjectExerciseen_US
dc.subjectAccelerometeren_US
dc.subjectAfter schoolen_US
dc.subjectDeterminantsen_US
dc.titlePsychosocial and demographic correlates of objectively measured physical activity in structured and unstructured after-school recreation sessionsen_US
dc.typeArticle (author version)en_US

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