Insufficient physical activity (PA) among adolescents has a negative effect on a wide range of health indicators. School physical education (PE) has an important role in promoting adolescents’ lifelong participation in PA as it provides an existing network where cost-effective interventions can be implemented to produce sustainable change in PA behavior. Complementarily, family-based interventions possess a potentially valuable route to increase adolescents’ PA. Importantly, previous research has highlighted the facilitative role of autonomous motivation on PA participation which might be the key variable in PA interventions. However, there are relatively low number of well-designed studies conducted in this important field of scientific research to draw causal conclusions. The aim of the current Research Topic is to collect the most updated and scientifically high-level research related to the interventions which aim to increase adolescents’ PA by using the whole-school (particularly PE teachers) or parents as the key behavioral agents.
School PE and family-based interventions provide a promising avenue for future research to solve the pandemic of adolescents’ physical inactivity. However, the scientific results are scattered in this field of research ranging from effective to non-effective interventions. The reason for this might be that there are still low number of such interventions conducted on high scientific level. In this special issue, we expect Authors to demonstrate the most innovative as well as high scientific level approaches with the aim to increase adolescents’ PA. In addition, we expect that Authors consider different forms of motivation as key mediators between perceived change in parents or PE teachers’ behavior and adolescents’ actual PA participation.
Some themes that can be covered:
Parent education, physical education teacher education, adolescents’ physical activity, physical activity intervention programs.
Accepted types of research papers:
Original Research, Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, Review, Brief Research Report
Insufficient physical activity (PA) among adolescents has a negative effect on a wide range of health indicators. School physical education (PE) has an important role in promoting adolescents’ lifelong participation in PA as it provides an existing network where cost-effective interventions can be implemented to produce sustainable change in PA behavior. Complementarily, family-based interventions possess a potentially valuable route to increase adolescents’ PA. Importantly, previous research has highlighted the facilitative role of autonomous motivation on PA participation which might be the key variable in PA interventions. However, there are relatively low number of well-designed studies conducted in this important field of scientific research to draw causal conclusions. The aim of the current Research Topic is to collect the most updated and scientifically high-level research related to the interventions which aim to increase adolescents’ PA by using the whole-school (particularly PE teachers) or parents as the key behavioral agents.
School PE and family-based interventions provide a promising avenue for future research to solve the pandemic of adolescents’ physical inactivity. However, the scientific results are scattered in this field of research ranging from effective to non-effective interventions. The reason for this might be that there are still low number of such interventions conducted on high scientific level. In this special issue, we expect Authors to demonstrate the most innovative as well as high scientific level approaches with the aim to increase adolescents’ PA. In addition, we expect that Authors consider different forms of motivation as key mediators between perceived change in parents or PE teachers’ behavior and adolescents’ actual PA participation.
Some themes that can be covered:
Parent education, physical education teacher education, adolescents’ physical activity, physical activity intervention programs.
Accepted types of research papers:
Original Research, Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, Review, Brief Research Report
