Self-efficacy partially mediates the effect of a school-based physical-activity intervention among adolescent girls

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 628-636

  Dishman, Rod K ^a   Motl, Robert W ^a   Saunders, Ruth ^b   Felton, Gwen ^b   Ward, Dianne S ^c   Dowda, Marsha ^b   Pate, Russell R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c IL   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Behavior modification; Exercise; Latent variable structural equation modeling; Randomized controlled trial; Social cognitive theory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURRICULUM; DATA ANALYSIS; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EXPECTANCY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFE SATISFACTION; LIFESTYLE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOTIVATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL EDUCATION; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RANDOMIZATION; RURAL AREA; SELF CONCEPT; URBAN AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; SELF EFFICACY; SOUTH CAROLINA;

EID: 1842580426     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2003.12.007     Document Type: Article

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