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Physical activity and obesity mediate the association between childhood motor function and adolescents' academic achievement
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- Kantomaa, M. T. (författare)
- LIKES, Research Center for Sport and Health Sciences, FI-40720 Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Stamatakis, E. (författare)
- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- Kankaanpää, A. (författare)
- LIKES, Research Center for Sport and Health Sciences, FI-40720 Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Kaakinen, M. (författare)
- Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu, FI-90014 Oulu, Finland
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- Rodriguez, Alina (författare)
- Mittuniversitetet,Avdelningen för psykologi
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- Taanila, A. (författare)
- Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu, FI-90014 Oulu, Finland
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- Ahonen, T. (författare)
- Primary Health Care Unit, Oulu University Hospital, FI-90014 Oulu, Finland
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- Järvelin, M. -R (författare)
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, MRC-HPA Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, London W2 1PG, United Kingdom
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- Tammelin, T. (författare)
- LIKES, Research Center for Sport and Health Sciences, FI-40720 Jyväskylä, Finland
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- 2012-12-31
- 2013
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. - : Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. - 0027-8424 .- 1091-6490. ; 110:5, s. 1917-1922
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Abstract
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- The global epidemic of obesity and physical inactivity may have detrimental implications for young people's cognitive function and academic achievement. This prospective study investigated whether childhood motor function predicts later academic achievement via physical activity, fitness, and obesity. The study sample included 8,061 children from the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986, which contains data about parent-reported motor function at age 8 y and self-reported physical activity, predicted cardiorespiratoryfitness (cycle ergometer test), obesity (body weight and height), and academic achievement (grades) at age 16 y. Structural equation models with unstandardized (B) and standardized (β) coefficients were used to test whether, and to what extent, physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness, and obesity at age 16 mediated the association between childhood motor function and adolescents' academic achievement. Physical activity was associated with a higher grade-point average, and obesity was associated with a lower grade-point average in adolescence. Furthermore, compromised motor function in childhood had a negative indirect effect on adolescents' academic achievement via physical inactivity (B = -0.023, 95% confidence interval = -0.031, -0.015) and obesity (B = -0.025, 95% confidence interval = -0.039, -0.011), but not via cardiorespiratory fitness. These results suggest that physical activity and obesity may mediate the association between childhood motor function and adolescents' academic achievement. Compromised motorfunctioninchildhood may represent an important factor driving the effects of obesity and physical inactivity on academic underachievement.
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- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology (hsv//eng)
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Klinisk medicin -- Pediatrik (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Clinical Medicine -- Pediatrics (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- Academic performance
- Exercise
- Motor skills
- Overweight
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