Title
Influence of parents and physical education teachers in adolescent physical activity
Date Issued
01 May 2015
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Olivares P.R.
Almonacid-Fierro A.
Garcia-Rubio J.
Universidad Autónoma de Chile
Universidad Autónoma de Chile
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Doyma
Abstract
The objective of this study was to analyze the influence of parents and Physical Education teachers on adolescent's extracurricular Physical Activity. Data were obtained from the Chilean System for the Assessment of Educational Quality test with a large representative sample of 23,180 students (11,927 females and 11,253 males aged 13.7 and 13.8 years respectively). The analyzed variables were the extracurricular physical activity of adolescents, parents' and physical education teachers' encouragement to do physical activity and parents' physical activity behavior. Associations between variables were analyzed using chi-squared tests. Two logistic regression models, one adjusted and the other unadjusted, were performed for each physical activity variable (vigorous, moderate, mild and total) in order to obtain odds ratios from parents' and physical education teachers' influence variables. Results showed that parents' influence is more relevant than physical education teachers' influence in order to promote physical activity in adolescents, regardless of age, sex and physical condition.
Start page
113
End page
120
Volume
15
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias médicas, Ciencias de la salud
Ciencias del deporte y la aptitud física
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84929708301
Source
International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology
ISSN of the container
16972600
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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