PT Journal
AU Jeffrey, JM
   McCaughtry, N
   Murphy, A
   Flory, S
   Wisdom, K
TI PSYCHOSOCIAL ASPECTS OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND FITNESS IN SPECIALPOPULATION, MINORITY MIDDLE SCHOOL CHILDREN.
SO European Journal of Adapted Physical Activity
PY 2011
BP 54
EP 68
VL 4
IS 1
DI 10.5507/euj.2011.004
DE health; special populations; cognitive disability; children; fitness
AB 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.
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