Adolescents' Physical Activity Levels and Behaviors

Researchers over the world have investigated therelationship between field dependence-independenceand sport-related settings (sports selection, sportsperformance, motor learning, and physical education)for almost 50 years. Field-dependent (FD)individuals, compared with field-independent (FI)individuals, are constantly found to demonstrate lessadvantage and poorer performance in thesesport-related settings. As a result, concerns arisethat FD adolescents might also experience lower levelof physical activity, which could result in a higherrisk of developing obesity and related diseases, thantheir FI counterpart. This book provides new researchresults supporting the concern. Specifically,compared with FI adolescents, FD adolescents have asignificantly lower level of physical activity, aremuch less likely to participate in organized sports,and tend to engage in physical activities that areless related to sports, thus expending less energy.The book adds new findings to the body of knowledgeand is useful to professionals in the field ofadolescents' physical activity promotion andintervention.

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Dr. Wenhao Liu, earning his Ph. D. from University of Georgia, USA, is on the faculty at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, USA. He has been on research of field dependence-independence (FDI) and its impact on sport-related settings for 20 years, and initiated the research on the relationship between FDI and adolescents' physical activity.

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Researchers over the world have investigated the relationship between field dependence-independence and sport-related settings (sports selection, sports performance, motor learning, and physical education) for almost 50 years. Field-dependent (FD) individuals, compared with field-independent (FI) individuals, are constantly found to demonstrate less advantage and poorer performance in these sport-related settings. As a result, concerns arise that FD adolescents might also experience lower level of physical activity, which could result in a higher risk of developing obesity and related diseases, than their FI counterpart. This book provides new research results supporting the concern. Specifically, compared with FI adolescents, FD adolescents have a significantly lower level of physical activity, are much less likely to participate in organized sports, and tend to engage in physical activities that are less related to sports, thus expending less energy. The book adds new findings to the body of knowledge and is useful to professionals in the field of adolescents' physical activity promotion and intervention.