Gender Differences in Motivation and Barriers for The Practice of Physical Exercise in Adolescence

Portela-Pino, Iago; Castedo, Antonio López; Martínez-Patiño, María José; Valverde-Esteve, Teresa; Alonso, José Domínguez

doi:10.3390/ijerph17010168

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“…In general, girls are less interested toward physical exercise than boys and manifest more barriers such as laziness (Portela-Pino et al, 2019 ). Thus, determinants of AC in girls are more embedded in the social environment, which motivates them to commute actively.…”

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Interventions Aiming to Promote Active Commuting in Children and Adolescents: An Evaluation From a Sex/Gender Perspective

Marzi¹,

Emmerling²,

Demetriou³

et al. 2020

Front. Sports Act. Living

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Active commuting (AC) provides numerous health benefits and is one way to improve physical activity in children and adolescents. Boys are more likely to use active transport modes than girls. Girls and boys benefit differently from interventions that promote AC. The aim of this systematic review is to evaluate the effects of interventions on girls and boys and to appraise the extent to which previous studies have taken sex/gender into account. Eleven electronic databases were searched to identify all relevant randomized and non-randomized controlled trials based on a priori defined eligibility criteria. Two independent reviewers screened the literature for eligibility and assessed risk of bias. Semiquantitative analyses were conducted to evaluate the effects of intervention effects by taking sex/gender aspects into account. To evaluate sex/gender considerations in interventional studies, a recently developed sex/gender checklist was applied. Twelve studies were included that examined intervention effects on AC in girls and boys. Three intervention studies showed significant effects in increasing AC, with one study favoring girls, one favoring boys, and another focusing on a single sex/gender (only girls). According to the checklist, the overall sex/gender rating highlighted a lack of information in sex/gender consideration. Studies with and without significant effects indicated no differences in the sex/gender checklist. The results indicate that sex/gender is not considered adequately in primary interventional research on AC. To evaluate the effectiveness of intervention in boys and girls, detailed analyses of sex/gender are required, and better reporting about sex/gender-specific intervention content is necessary. In future health research to promote AC, sex/gender should be systematically taken into account.

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confidence: 99%

Interventions Aiming to Promote Active Commuting in Children and Adolescents: An Evaluation From a Sex/Gender Perspective

Marzi¹,

Emmerling²,

Demetriou³

et al. 2020

Front. Sports Act. Living

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“…In addition, school physical education can promote behaviors and skills related to emotional intelligence, such as empathy, self-concept, and altruism that trigger positive attitudes toward PA [39,40,41,42]. Therefore, it is very important to identify individual, cultural and social factors that may interfere with the PA, avoiding barriers that compromise this practice, such as unsafe environments, difficulties in accessing spaces for this practice and high costs related to public and private equipment [13,43,44,45,46].…”

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Physical Activity and Adolescent Health: What Should We Know?

Ciampo

2020

ACRI

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Adolescence is characterized by a period of physical, emotional, social and cultural transformations, significant increase in size and changes in physical appearance. At this stage of life the individual is very susceptible to influences of the environment, nutrition, climate, interpersonal relationships and physical activity, among others. This article presents some of the main physical and emotional characteristics of adolescence and the importance of physical activity, highlighting the benefits for physical and mental health, and proposing actions to increase this practice among adolescents.

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“…In this paper, physical exercise is defined as a physical activity that is done with a specific aim [20]. In other words, the activity is pre-planned and organized to improve or maintain one or more aspects that determine an individual's physical condition [21][22][23].…”

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“…Regular exercise is one of the main instruments available to the population to promote and maintain good health. Motivation is considered to be a process that stimulates and directs behavior towards the aim or goal of an activity that is instigated and sustained, while obstacles are understood as barriers or impediments that lead to not doing an activity, and which therefore have a fundamental impact on starting and consolidating PA habits [20,24,25].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Many studies in recent years have uncovered a multitude of motivational factors that directly or indirectly intervene in people's interest and participation in doing physical exercise [20][21][22][23][24][25]. Regarding the variables that generate motivation, reference [22,23] point to having fun and occupying free time, maintaining physical fitness and appearance, health, and an enjoyment of sports, in that order, as the main reasons why people do physical exercise in their free time.…”

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Lack of Association between the Reasons for and Time Spent Doing Physical Activity

Domínguez-Amorós

Chueca

2020

IJERPH

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Low levels of Physical Activity (PA) and sedentarism are associated with the onset of different pathologies and health problems. Regular physical activity has been linked with being beneficial to the health of the general population. Within this framework of analysis, the aim of the present study was to analyze the association between the time spent doing physical activity and the expressed motives for doing so, from which the innovative aspect of the paper emerges: the use of the time spent doing PA as a study variable of the phenomenon. The data analyzed come from the latest special Eurobarometer survey about the sport and physical activity done in Europe. Using an exploratory factorial analysis and a structural equations model, a six-dimensional factorial model was found that explains the reasons for doing PA, demonstrating that there is no relationship between the reasons for and time spent doing PA. The motivation is not a variable that explains the time spent doing PA, and another type of variable must be used to explain the phenomenon if PA is to be incentivized. Weaknesses of the study are that it works with individuals as a group and that the fundamental dependence on age is not introduced, which could determine interest in practicing PA. Similarly, the impact of the conditions of implementing PA, education, and family history should also be introduced into the model.

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Gender Differences in Motivation and Barriers for The Practice of Physical Exercise in Adolescence

Cited by 61 publications

References 25 publications

Interventions Aiming to Promote Active Commuting in Children and Adolescents: An Evaluation From a Sex/Gender Perspective

Interventions Aiming to Promote Active Commuting in Children and Adolescents: An Evaluation From a Sex/Gender Perspective

Physical Activity and Adolescent Health: What Should We Know?

Lack of Association between the Reasons for and Time Spent Doing Physical Activity

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