Her Life Depends On It: Sport, Physical Activity and the Health and Well-Being of American Girls

This report is a comprehensive compendium of research that points to physical activity and sport as fundamental solutions for many of the serious health and social problems faced by American girls. An appreciable mass of evidence-based knowledge about girls' involvement with sport and physical activity has been generated during the last decade. The amount and quality of this research are uneven and varied. For example, a good deal of research examines the associations between physical activity and risk for coronary heart disease, but studies that focus on risk for Alzheimer's disease are just beginning to issue. Researchers have verified links between high school athletic participation and teen pregnancy prevention, although more longitudinal research is needed to thoroughly confirm the connections. Overall, however, this report shows that the current state of knowledge on the relationship of physical activity to the health and social needs of American girls warrants the serious attention of public health officials, educators and sport leaders

Her Life Depends on it III: Sport, Physical Activity and the Health and Well-being of American Girls and Women

Her Life Depends On It III is the Women's Sports Foundation's comprehensive report that reviews existing and emerging research on the links between participation in sport and physical activity and the health and wellbeing of American girls and women. As with the previous editions in 2004 and 2009, this study also confirms that physical activity and sport provides the critical foundation, in no small part, that allows girls and women to lead healthy, strong, and fulfilled lives. Ten years since its first publication, the updated Her Life Depends On It provides an even more comprehensive review of the ever-expanding body of research that demonstrates how important it is for girls and women to participate in sport and physical activity. The report's contents reflect the review of 1,500 studies, nearly 400 covered since the previous edition

Globalization american-style and reference idol selection : the importance of athlete celebrity others among New Zealand youth

Influence de héros, icônes populaires de la culture américaine (acteurs, chanteurs et sportifs, tel Michael Jordan) sur les adolescents, lors de la construction de leur identité. Américanisation touchant les croyances, les valeurs, les comportements et l'image de soi des jeunes du monde entier. Influence du 'mondial' sur le 'local' : sondage réalisé auprès de 510 jeunes Néo-Zélandais

Untangling the links among athletic involvment, gender, race and adolescent academic outcomes

Enquête portant sur un échantillon de 600 adolescents qui nuance l'impact de la pratique sportive sur les résultats scolaires, généralement jugé positif, en prenant en compte des variables de genre et de rac

High school athletic participation and adolescent suicide : a nationwide US study

Etude américaine portant sur la relation entre pratique sportive au lycée et taux de suicide chez les jeunes de 15 à 24 ans

The Effects Of High School Athletic Participation On Education And Labor Market Outcomes

We introduce a simple allocation-of-time model to explain the high school athletic participation choice and the implications of this choice for educational and labor market outcomes. Four different factors that could explain athletic participation are identified in the context of this model. A variety of tests of the model are provided using two data sets: the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972. We find some evidence that athletic participation directly affects wages and educational attainment. However, much of the effect of athletic participation on wages and educational attainment appears to reflect differences across individuals in ability or value of leisure. © 2000 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology