Physical Activity and its Related Motivational Attributes in Adolescents with Different BMI
- 28 September 2011
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in International Journal of Behavioral Medicine
- Vol. 20 (1), 106-113
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s12529-011-9196-z
Abstract
A number of obesity studies have been focused on identifying the relationships between socioeconomic status and physical activity involvement. In behavioral medicine, the limited data are available on obese people’s physical activity and its related psychological predictors based on psychological theories.Keywords
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