Personal Fulfillment Motivates Adolescents to Be Physically Active
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Personal fulfillment motivates adolescents to be physically active.
OBJECTIVES To identify factors that motivate adolescents to be physically active; to assess differences in motivators for groups at risk for physical inactivity, including girls vs boys, overweight vs nonoverweight youth, and youth with low vs high perceived sport competence; and to assess links between activity motivation and physical activity. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING A middl...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1072-4710
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.159.12.1115