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

Jeffrey J. Martin, Kathryn Brogan-Hartlieb, Angela J. Jacques-Tiura, Sylvie Naar-King, Deborah A. Ellis, Kai-Lin Catherine Jen

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

Číslo: 2/2016
Periodikum: Acta Universitatis Carolinae Kinanthropologica
DOI: 10.14712/23366052.2016.7

Klíčová slova: health; self-esteem; adolescents; obesity; minority, zdraví; sebevědomí; Adolescenti; obezita; menšina

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Anotace: 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.