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- Title
Relationships between youth sport participation and selected health risk behaviors from 1999 to 2007.
- Authors
Taliaferro, Lindsay A; Rienzo, Barbara A; Donovan, Kristine A
- Abstract
How adolescents spend their out-of-school time represents one of the most important factors for predicting positive youth development. Sport participation relates to many beneficial outcomes. However, current economic conditions threaten high school sport programs around the United States. This investigation examined relationships by year between sport participation and numerous health risk behaviors among high school students.
- Publication
The Journal of school health, 2010, Vol 80, Issue 8, p399
- ISSN
1746-1561
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1746-1561.2010.00520.x