title: Scale development for perceived school climate for girls' physical activity.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To test an original scale assessing perceived school climate for girls' physical activity in middle school girls.
  
  
  METHODS
  Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and structural equation modeling (SEM).
  
  
  RESULTS
  CFA retained 5 of 14 original items. A model with 2 correlated factors, perceptions about teachers' and boys' behaviors, respectively, fit the data well in both sixth and eighth graders. SEM detected a positive, significant direct association of the teacher factor, but not the boy factor, with girls' self-reported physical activity.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  School climate for girls' physical activity is a measurable construct, and preliminary evidence suggests a relationship with physical activity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA. asb2006@med.cornell.edu
authors.forename: Amanda S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Birnbaum
authors.forename: Kelly R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Evenson
authors.forename: Robert W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Motl
authors.forename: Rod K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Dishman
authors.forename: Carolyn C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Voorhees
authors.forename: James F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Sallis
authors.forename: John P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Elder
authors.forename: Marsha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dowda
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D015444:Exercise; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005178:Faculty; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015233:Models, Statistical; D012574:Schools; D012919:Social Behavior; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States