The Role of Peer Social Network Factors and Physical Activity in Adolescent Girls

Authors

Carolyn C. Voorhees, University of Maryland at College Park
David Murray, University of Memphis
Greg Welk, Iowa State University
Amanda Birnbaum, Montclair State UniversityFollow
Kurt M. Ribisi, University of North Carolina
Carolyn C. Johnson, Tulane University
Karin Allor Pfeiffer, University of South Carolina
Brit Saksvig, University of Maryland at Baltimore
Jared B. Jobe, Behavioral Medicine Scientific Research Group

Document Type

Preprint

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.

Comments

Published in final edited form as: Am J Health Behav. 2005 ; 29(2): 183–190.

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