Engagement in physical activity plays a central role the prevention and treatment of childhood overweight/obesity. However, some children may lack skills confidence to be physically active. This 3-year follow-up study aimed form profiles based on cardiorespiratory fitness, actual motor competence, perceived activity, weight status, examine if these remain stable from late early adolescence. All...

The present study aimed to investigate the attitudes and perceived nature of thinking and understanding towards intercultural communicative competence (ICC) among International English major students. Accordingly, this study employed the paradigm of a sequential mixed-method research, in which it comprised a qualitative phase followed by a quantitative phase. The participants of the first phase...

OBJECTIVE To explore the extent and type of motor problems in children with complex congenital heart disease (CHD) compared with schoolchildren without any documented heart failure. DESIGN Cohort study. SETTING Biomechanical Laboratory, Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet Medical Centre. PARTICIPANTS One hundred twenty children aged 7 to 12 years with complex CHD and 387 healthy schoolchildre...

The specific aim of this study was to examine whether motivational climate, perceived physical competence, and exercise motivation predict enjoyment in school physical education within the same sample of adolescents across three years of secondary school. A sample of 639 students (girls = 296, boys = 343) aged between 13- to 15-years at the commencement of the study completed the Intrinsic Moti...

The purpose of this study was to provide a better understanding of doctoral studies persistence and completion by developing and validating a predictive model of dropout intentions. Based on self-determination theory (SDT), the model posits that perceived competence decreases dropout intentions, and that perceived competence is explained by autonomous and controlled regulations, which are in tu...

BACKGROUND Understanding correlates of physical activity (PA) among children in different populations may contribute to fostering active lifestyles. This study considered gender differences in relationships between biologic (body mass index, BMI), demographic (socioeconomic sport status, SES) and psychosocial correlates of PA and level of PA in Portuguese primary school children. METHODS 683 ...