Do High- and Low-Active Adolescents Have Different Prototypes of Physically Active Peers?

Keresztes, Noémi; Pikó, Bettina; Gibbons, Frederick X.; Spielberger, Charles D.

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“…For example, distinct changes in thinking (Keating, 2004), self-perception (Wigfield, Eccles, Mac Iver, Reuman, & Midgley, 1991), and motivation (Wigfield et al, 1991) occur during adolescence. These changes may significantly influence a variety of developmental outcomes, including academic achievement, selfconcept development, achievement motivation (Wigfield & Wagner, 2005), and prototypes of physical activities (e.g., Keresztes et al, 2009). Most importantly, adolescence is a crucial period for the formation of individuals' self-concept.…”

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The Effects of Concealing Academic Achievement Information on Adolescents’ Self-Concept

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“…Our measurements were not eligible for linear regression, since for the purpose of the study, we dichotomised the health behaviour variables (1 = no, 2 = yes, except for leisure time physical activity where 1 = no or occasionally, 2 = regularly) (Keresztes et al 2009) to clearly separate the respondents who take part in the mentioned behaviour at all and those who do not. With the dichotomisation process response categories were recoded.…”

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“…Apart from social influences of peers (Keresztes et al 2008;Page et al 2005), social images or prototypes related to different health behaviours (giBBoNs & gerrard 1997;Keresztes et al 2009), social comparison (giBBoNs & BuuNK 1999PiKó et al 2010), social coping mechanisms (PiKó & Keresztes 2007), and social orientations (PiKó et al 2010) may also have an important role.…”

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Does Competitiveness Count? The Role of Competitive Attitudes in Health Risk and Preventive Health Behaviours

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2015

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Adolescents' health behaviours are influenced by many social variables. Among these factors, competitiveness may also have an important role. However, the relationship between competitiveness and health behaviours is a less investigated field of research.Our data were collected in 2005, in the Southern Plain region of Hungary. 548 questionnaires were analysed (age range: 14 to 21 years; M = 16.3 years; SD = 1.3 years; response rate: 91.3%; 42% female). Self-administered questionnaires were used for data collection. Our findings pointed out that competitiveness was in significant relationship with both health risk and preventive health behaviours as previous studies had suggested. We identified three independent dimensions of competitiveness using factor analysis, namely: 'Enjoyment of competition'; 'Avoidance of social conflict', and 'Fear of competition'. These factors were found to have different roles in varying health behaviours. In contrast with previous studies, we pointed out that health risk behaviours were more frequent among respondents characterised by 'Avoidance of social conflict' and 'Fear of competition'. In terms of preventive health behaviours, we pointed out that physical activity was in significant relationship with every competitiveness dimension. On the other hand, diet control and oral hygiene were associated only with the 'Avoidance of social conflict' and 'Fear of competition' factors.Based on these results we may conclude that students with a tendency towards social conflict avoidance and fear of competition would be an important target group for health promotion programs. Keywords: social variables, competitiveness, preventive health behaviours, risk behaviours, youthEuropean Journal of Mental Health 10 (2015) 44-61 DOI: 10.5708/EJMH.10.2015

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“…Therefore, including positive social images may have serious practical implications for health promotion programs. While earlier studies have focused on exploring the relationship between social image and substance use (Piko et al, 2007), little evidence is available on the correlation between social image and physical activity (Keresztes, Piko, Gibbons, & Spielberger, 2009;Ouellette, Hessling, Gibbons, Reis-Bergan, & Gerrard, 2005).…”

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Prototype perception of physically active peers: result from a study among Hungarian university students

Tari-Keresztes

Pikó

Gupta

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Introduction: Previous studies argued the role of social prototypes in making desicisions on healthy and unhealthy behaviors. Positive images associated with a certain behavior might increase the possibility of developing the behavior. While most of the studies focused on health risk behaviors, health promoting behaviors have been less investigated yet. However, young adults are more conscious about the social images associated with health behaviors compared with their younger equivalents; much of the relevant research has been conducted with the latter groups. Purpose: The main aim of this study was to (1) examine how university students perceive their physically active peers, (2) map the adjectives associated with the 'physically active peers' prototypes, (3) identify respondents' categories based on their prototype perception, and (4) detect relationships between social images, sociodemographic variables, sporting habits and social attitudes. Material and Method: Cross-sectional, self-report data were obtained from a convenience sample of 515 respondents aged 18-31 years via a survey with students from a Hungarian university. Result: Cluster analyses detected three independent clusters: "Negative" image" group, "Positive appearance" group, "Positive appearance and personality" group. Age, gender, selfassessed SES, sporting friends, social support, social network, Internet use, competitiveness and the need to belonging seemed to make a difference along these groups of social images. Conclusion: Our findings suggested that social variables may play a moderate role in university students' sport-related prototype formation.

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Do High- and Low-Active Adolescents Have Different Prototypes of Physically Active Peers?

Abstract: Previous studies have investigated social images in health-The results of previous studies have indicated that adolescents' healthrelated behaviors are influenced by their social images, or prototypes (Aloise-

Cited by 8 publications

References 34 publications

The Effects of Concealing Academic Achievement Information on Adolescents’ Self-Concept

The Effects of Concealing Academic Achievement Information on Adolescents’ Self-Concept

Does Competitiveness Count? The Role of Competitive Attitudes in Health Risk and Preventive Health Behaviours

Prototype perception of physically active peers: result from a study among Hungarian university students

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