Assistant professor Zan Gao, Ph.D., and director of the Physical Activity Epidemiology Lab (PAEL), served as a corresponding author for a recently published a paper in Obesity and Control: Open Access.

The paper “Examining Psychosocial Correlates of Adolescent Girls’ Physical Activity Levels“, inspected the relationships between several psychosocial constructs and physical activity levels in adolescent girls, as well as their differences across several ethnicities. The study found that adolescent girls’ self-efficacy appeared as the only predictor of their daily physical activity levels, and therefore interventions to enhance their self-efficacy should be considered.

The full citation is as follows:

Zhang, P., Xiang, P., Lodewyk, K., Sheng, H., & Gao, Z. (2015). Examining psychosocial correlates of adolescent girls’ physical activity levels. Obesity and Control: Open Access, 1(1), 105.