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Associations of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior With Adolescent Academic Achievement
Author(s) -
Kantomaa Marko T.,
Stamatakis Emmanuel,
Kankaanpää Anna,
Kajantie Eero,
Taanila Anja,
Tammelin Tuija
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of research on adolescence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.342
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1532-7795
pISSN - 1050-8392
DOI - 10.1111/jora.12203
Subject(s) - psychology , club , logistic regression , physical activity , sedentary behavior , latent class model , developmental psychology , reading (process) , physical activity level , cohort , sedentary lifestyle , odds , screen time , demography , physical therapy , medicine , statistics , mathematics , sociology , political science , law , anatomy
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.