The Role of Peer Social Network Factors and Physical Activity in Adolescent Girls
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Spring 3-2005
Journal / Book Title
American Journal of Health Behavior
Abstract
Objective: To study the relationship between peer-related physical activity (PA) social networks and the PA of adolescent girls.
Methods: Cross-sectional, convenience sample of adolescent girls. Mixed-model linear regression analyses to identify significant correlates of self-reported PA while accounting for correlation of girls in the same school.
Results: Younger girls were more active than older girls. Most activity-related peer social network items were related to PA levels. More PA with friends was significantly related to self-reported PA in multivariate analyses.
Conclusions: Frequency of PA with friends was an important correlate of PA among the peer network variables for adolescent girls.
DOI
10.5993/AJHB.29.2.9
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Voorhees, Carolyn C.; Murray, David; Welk, Greg; Birnbaum, Amanda; Ribisi, Kurt M.; Johnson, Carolyn C.; Allor Pfeiffer, Karin; Saksvig, Brit; and Jobe, Jared B., "The Role of Peer Social Network Factors and Physical Activity in Adolescent Girls" (2005). Department of Public Health Scholarship and Creative Works. 93.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/public-health-facpubs/93
Published Citation
Voorhees, Carolyn C., David Murray, Greg Welk, Amanda Birnbaum, Kurt M. Ribisl, Carolyn C. Johnson, Karin Allor Pfeiffer, Brit Saksvig, and Jared B. Jobe. "The role of peer social network factors and physical activity in adolescent girls." American journal of health behavior 29, no. 2 (2005): 183-190.