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Plante, Thomas G.; Chizmar, Lisay; Owen, David R.

doi:10.1023/a:1021906202898

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“…As for athletic competence, the participants were asked to report on their experiences with participation in competitive sports on behalf of their school before and after entry to junior high school and their self-perceived talent for sports. Perceived talent for sports and athletic competence has been shown to be correlated with actual physical fitness and physical activity participation (40,41), and thus it was used to represent the level of physical fitness that was not measured in the dataset. Every response to these three questions was a dichotomous item ("yes" or "no"), which in the data analysis is presented as 1 = yes and no = 0, and then added to create a single scale that indicates the degree of athletic competence (range 0-3), where a higher score represents a higher level of athletic competence (Cronbach's alpha = 0.661).…”

Section: Athletic Competencementioning

confidence: 99%

Relationship Between Weight Status and Self-Image Mediated by Pubertal Timing and Athletic Competence: A Cohort Study With Taiwanese Adolescents

Kuo

Herrera

Liu

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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BackgroundSelf-image reflects overall self-acceptance in developing adolescents. Using a representative cohort of Taiwanese youth, this study aims to explore the relationship between weight status, pubertal timing, athletic competence, and adolescent self-image.MethodsData come from the Taiwan Youth Project that comprised a longitudinal cohort of adolescents (N = 2690, 51% males, Mage = 13.3 ± 0.5 years) surveyed annually from seventh grade. Self-image was measured by perceived satisfaction with appearance and physique. Weight status was proxied by self-reported body mass index (BMI; kg/m2). Pubertal timing was defined using the Pubertal Developmental Scale, which mainly measured physical changes in puberty. Athletic competence was assessed by experiences with participation in competitive sports and self-perceived talent for sports. Linear regression analysis was applied to test for an association between BMI and self-image. In order to test for mediating roles of pubertal timing and athletic competence, Hayes' PROCESS macro on SPSS was conducted applying 5,000 bootstrap resamples with 95% confidence intervals of the indirect effect.ResultsBMI was inversely associated with self-image in both males (β = −0.074, [−0.095, −0.053]) and females (β = −0.095, [−0.122, −0.069]). The boot-strapped 95% confidence intervals indicated statistically significant mediating effects of pubertal timing (β = −0.008, [−0.015, −0.001]) and athletic competence (β = −0.006, [−0.011, −0.002]) in the link between BMI and self–image in females, whilst only athletic competence mediated this association (β = −0.006, [−0.009, −0.002]) in males. Moreover, BMI at baseline were also associated with long-term self-image in males (β = −0.037, [−0.057, −0.017]) and females (β = 0.132, [0.073, 0.190]).ConclusionsUnderstanding the mediating factors may help enhance adolescents' self-image by providing guidance on healthy weight and physical activity behaviors according to different stages of pubertal progression.

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Section: Athletic Competencementioning

confidence: 99%