Correlates of adults' participation in physical activity: Review and update

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1996-2001

  Trost, Stewart G ^a,b,c   Owen, Neville ^a,b   Bauman, Adrian E ^a,b   Sallis, James F ^a,b   Brown, Wendy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Demographic; Determinants; Environmental; Exercise; Literature review; Psychological; Social

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXERCISE; HUMAN; MARRIAGE; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; REVIEW; SMOKING; SOCIAL ASPECT;

EID: 0036897643     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005768-200212000-00020     Document Type: Review

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