Agreement between student-reported and proxy-reported physical activity questionnaires.
Parents and 531 students (46% males, 78% white) completed equivalent questionnaires. Agreement between student and parent responses to questions about hypothesized physical activity (PA) correlates was assessed. Relationships between hypothesized correlates and an objective measure of student's moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) in a subset of 177 students were also investigated. Agreement between student and parent ranged from r = .34 to .64 for PA correlates. Spearman correlations between MVPA and PA correlates ranged from--.04 to .21 for student report and--.14 to .32 for parent report, and there were no statistical differences for 8 out of 9 correlations between parent and student. Parents can provide useful data on PA correlates for students in Grades 7-12.
Dowda
Marsha
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Dept. of Exercise Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA.
Pate
Russell R
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Sallis
James F
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Freedson
Patty S
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Taylor
Wendell C
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Sirard
John R
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Trost
Stewart G
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D000293:Adolescent; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D002648:Child; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods*; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D015444:Exercise / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008404:Massachusetts; D015588:Observer Variation; D010290:Parents; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires