
The Role of Peer Social Network Factors and Physical Activity in Adolescent Girls
Keywords: Social networks; adolescents; girls; physical activity; social support
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: 1: Department of Public and Community Health, Department of Kinesiology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 2: Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 3: Department of Health and Human Performance, Iowa State University, Ames IA 4: Weill Cornell Medical Center, Department of Public Health, New York, NY 5: Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, UNC School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC 6: Department of Community Health Sciences, Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA 7: Department of Exercise Science, Arnold School of Public Health University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 8: Department of Kinesiology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 9: Administrator, Behavioral Medicine Scientific Research Group, Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD
Publication date: March 1, 2005
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