Testing Direct and Indirect Effects of Sports Participation on Perceived Health in Spanish Adolescents between 15 and 18 Years of Age

Autor/inn/en	Pastor, Yolanda; Balaguer, Isabel; Pons, Diana; Garcia-Merita, Marisa
Titel	Testing Direct and Indirect Effects of Sports Participation on Perceived Health in Spanish Adolescents between 15 and 18 Years of Age
Quelle	In: Journal of Adolescence, 26 (2003) 6, S. 717-730 PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0140-1971
DOI	10.1016/j.adolescence.2003.07.001
Schlagwörter	Forschungsbericht; Athletics; Smoking; Physical Fitness; Drinking; Adolescents; Foreign Countries; Depression (Psychology); Health; Student Participation; Models; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Health Behavior; Spain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Leichtathletik; Rauchen; Leistungsfähigkeit; Trinken; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Ausland; Gesundheit; Schülermitarbeit; Schülermitwirkung; Studentische Mitbestimmung; Analogiemodell; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Health behaviour; Gesundheitsverhalten; Spanien
Abstract	This paper examines the direct and indirect effects of sports participation on perceived health. It is based on a representative sample of middle adolescents aged 15-18 (N=1038, M AGE=16.31, S. D.=0.92; 510 boys and 528 girls) from the Valencian Community (Spain). This study used two different models; Model A is an adaptation of Thorlindsson, Vilhjalmsson and Valgeirsson's (Social Science and Medicine 31 (1990) 551) model which introduces smoking, alcohol use, feelings of anxiety, feelings of depression and psychophysiological symptoms as mediator variables; Model B is an extension of Model A with perceived physical fitness as an added mediator variable. Both models show a good fit to the data. Results showed that, in both models, sports participation affected perceived health directly and indirectly by decreasing smoking and alcohol consumption, feelings of depression and psychophysiological symptoms. In Model B, sport also affected perceived health via increased perceived physical fitness explaining almost 10% more of the variance. [This study was supported by Conselleria de Educacion y Ciencia de la Generalitat Valenciana, Spain.] (Author).
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Begutachtung	Peer reviewed
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10