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AUTHOR
Yolanda Pastor
Testing direct and indirect effects of sports participation on perceived health in Spanish adolescents between 15 and 18 years of age.
This paper examines the direct and indirect effects of sports participation on perceived health. It is based on a representative sample of middle adolescents aged 15-18 (N=1038, M age=16.31, S.D.=0.92; 510 boys and 528 girls) from the Valencian Community (Spain). This study used two different models; Model A is an adaptation of Thorlindsson, Vilhjalmsson and Valgeirsson's (Social Science and Medicine 31 (1990) 551) model which introduces smoking, alcohol use, feelings of anxiety, feelings of depression and psychophysiological symptoms as mediator variables; Model B is an extension of Model A with perceived physical fitness as an added mediator variable. Both models show a good fit to the da…
El autoconcepto y la autoestima en la adolescencia media: análisis diferencial por curso y género
ResumenEl objetivo de este trabajo consiste en estudiar las caracteristicas diferenciales del autoconcepto y la autoestima en la adolescencia media por edad y por genero en una muestra representativa de la Comunidad Valenciana (N = 1.038, M edad = 16.31, Rango = 15–18 anos). El instrumento utilizado ha sido una adaptacion del Perfil de Autopercepciones para Adolescentes de Harter (1988) validado con adolescentes valencianos (Pastor, Balaguer, Atienza y Garcia-Merita, 2001). Se realizan analisis descriptivos y diferenciales. Los resultados muestran que los chicos obtienen puntuacionespor encima de la media teorica en todas las dimensiones del autoconcepto, mientras que las chicas presentan p…