European Journal of Adapted Physical Activity 4, 54-68 (2011) | DOI: 10.5507/euj.2011.004

PSYCHOSOCIAL ASPECTS OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND FITNESS IN SPECIALPOPULATION, MINORITY MIDDLE SCHOOL CHILDREN.

Martin J. Jeffrey, Nate McCaughtry, Ann Murphy, Sara Flory, Kimberlydawn Wisdom
1 Wayne State University, USA
2 University of South Florida, USA
3 Henry Ford Health Systems, USA

Special-population research predicting physical activity (PA) and fitness with minority middle school children from at-risk environments is rare. Hence, the purpose of our investigation was to evaluate the ability of important social cognitive and environment-based measures to predict PA and fitness with children with developmental delay, cognitive, and emotional impairments. Children (N = 89, ages 11-15) completed questionnaires assessing social cognitive and environment-based constructs, self report PA, and completed fitness testing. Correlational results supported some hypotheses. The descriptive and correlational results also indicated commonalities with similar research on non special-population minority middle school children from at-risk environments.

Keywords: health, special populations, cognitive disability, children, fitness

Published: March 31, 2011  Show citation

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Jeffrey, M.J., McCaughtry, N., Murphy, A., Flory, S., & Wisdom, K. (2011). PSYCHOSOCIAL ASPECTS OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND FITNESS IN SPECIALPOPULATION, MINORITY MIDDLE SCHOOL CHILDREN. European Journal of Adapted Physical Activity, 4(1), 54-68. doi: 10.5507/euj.2011.004
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