Associations of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior With Adolescent Academic Achievement.
The Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986 (N=8,061) was used to investigated the joint associations of physical activity and sedentary behavior with academic achievement. Logistic regression analysis was used to evaluate how classes formed by latent class analysis (LCA) according to overall physical activity, sports club membership, viewing TV, using a computer, reading books and magazines, other sedentary activities, and sleep were associated with grade-point average. When adjusted for gender, self-rated health, and mother's education, physically active adolescents and generally active adolescents were about twice as likely to have high grade-point average compared with sedentary TV viewers.
LIKES - Research Center for Sport and Health Sciences; Imperial College London.
Marko T
MT
Kantomaa
University of Sydney; University College London.
Emmanuel
E
Stamatakis
LIKES - Research Center for Sport and Health Sciences.
Anna
A
Kankaanpää
National Institute for Health and Welfare; Helsinki University Central Hospital and University of Helsinki; Oulu University Hospital and University of Oulu.
Eero
E
Kajantie
University of Oulu.
Anja
A
Taanila
LIKES - Research Center for Sport and Health Sciences.
Tuija
T
Tammelin