Individual and Interpersonal Factors and Their Interaction Predicting the Intentional Physical Education Skipping Behavior among Lithuanian High School Students

The promotion of physical activity in education (PE) might be enabled only the case that PE is attended. Intentional skipping PE, while widespread, understudied. aim study to identify individual and interpersonal correlates as well their interaction effect on intentional behavior Lithuanian high school students. This cross-sectional population-based included 1285 students aged from 14 18 years old. Among them, 42.2 were male. skipping, sociodemographic, indicators measured. Results revealed 58.4% intentionally skip class at least once per week. main are sedentary social participation. preventive factors perception usefulness, better self-rated health among direct predictors. Indirectly, capital played a protective role for classes through more positive usefulness. Raising awareness benefits, providing rationale contexts family school, terms support building trust with teachers, strengthening reciprocity indirectly prevents students’ behaviors.