Psychosocial And Health Behaviors In Young Adults

Physical activity, nutrition, and sedentary behavior combine to influence the risk of overweight among adolescents. This paper aims to identify psychosocial factors of different health behavior patterns in adolescents and its association with overweight and weight control behaviors. The 3069 adolescents of both feminine (standard of 14.8 years old) from the 2010 Portuguese survey of Health Behaviour School-Aged Children (HBSC) answered the 2010 HBSC self-reported questionnaire. It used the cluster k-means (non hierarchy method), qui-square, one-way ANOVA, and logistic regression. Three clusters with different behavioral patterns (physical activity, sedentary, and eating) composed the results obtained. The sedentary group (34%) had lower self-regulation, body satisfaction, health and wellness, family and classmates relationships, communication with the father than the other two groups. The active gamers (25%) had a smaller BMI but used more unhealthy weight control strategies than the other two groups. The healthy group (41%) was more motivated and more satisfied with school but was not different from the active gamers in most psychosocial variables. Differences were found between clusters for weight control behaviors and psychosocial variables. Different strategies for different patterns were necessary in order to promote obesity prevention and, simultaneously, target healthy lifestyle and wellbeing in adolescents.

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