Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 5-2005
Journal / Book Title
American Journal of Health Behavior
Abstract
Objectives: To test an original scale assessing perceived school climate for girls' physical activity in middle school girls. Methods: Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and structural equation modeling (SEM). Results: CFA retained 5 of 14 original items. A model with 2 correlated factors, perceptions about teachers' and boys' behaviors, respectively, fit the data well in both sixth and eighth-graders. SEM detected a positive, significant direct association of the teacher factor, but not the boy factor, with girls' self-reported physical activity. Conclusions:School climate for girls' physical activity is a measurable construct, and preliminary evidence suggests a relationship with physical activity.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5993/AJHB.29.3.6
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Birnbaum, Amanda; Evenson, Kelly R.; Motl, Robert W.; Dishman, Rod K.; Voorhees, Carolyn C.; Sallis, James F.; Elder, John P.; and Dowda, Marsha, "Scale Development for Perceived School Climate for Girls’ Physical Activity" (2005). Department of Public Health Scholarship and Creative Works. 187.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/public-health-facpubs/187
Published Citation
Birnbaum, Amanda S., Kelly R. Evenson, Robert W. Motl, Rod K. Dishman, Carolyn C. Voorhees, James F. Sallis, John P. Elder, and Marsha Dowda. "Scale development for perceived school climate for girls' physical activity." American journal of health behavior 29, no. 3 (2005): 250-257.
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