Assistant professor Zan Gao, Ph.D., and director of the Physical Activity Epidemiology Lab (PAEL), and Zachary Pope, Ph.D. student and graduate assistant within PAEL, recently coauthored a paper published in the Journal of Teaching, Media, and Research in Kinesiology.

The article entitled, “Associations between Adolescents’ Situational Motivation and Objectively-Determined Physical Activity Levels in Physical Education”, examines the relationship between adolescents situational motivation and objectively measured physical activity levels in physical education. This study is unique as it used both pedometers and accelerometers to measure physical activity levels.

The full citation is as follows:

Ning, W., Pope, Z., Gao, Z. (2015). Associations between Adolescents’ Situational Motivation and Objectively-Determined Physical Activity Levels in Physical Education. Journal of Teaching, Media, and Research in Kinesiology, 2, 1-13.