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The socialisation of the adolescent who carries out team sports: a transversal study of centrality with a social network analysis
Autor(es)
Materia
Adolescentes
Obesidad
Deportes de equipo
Redes sociales
Clasificación UNESCO
6102 Psicología del Niño y del Adolescente
Fecha de publicación
2021
Editor
BMJ Publishing Group
Citación
Marqués-Sánchez, P., Benítez-Andrades, J. A., Calvo Sánchez, M.D., Arias, N. (2021). The socialisation of the adolescent who carries out team sports: a transversal study of centrality with a social network analysis. BMJ Open, 11, 1-10
Resumen
[ES] Se analiza la actividad física realizada por los adolescentes del estudio, su relación con el sobrepeso (sobrepeso+obesidad) y la estructura de la red social de amistad establecida en adolescentes que practican deportes colectivos, utilizando diferentes parámetros indicativos de centralidad. [EN]Objectives To analyse the physical activity carried out
by the adolescents in the study, its relationship to being
overweight (overweight+obese) and to analyse the
structure of the social network of friendship established in
adolescents doing group sports, using different parameters
indicative of centrality.
Setting It was carried out in an educational environment,
in 11 classrooms belonging to 5 Schools in Ponferrada
(Spain).
Participants 235 adolescents were included in the study
(49.4% female), who were classified as normal weight or
overweight.
Primary and secondary outcome measures Physical
Activity Questionnaire for Adolescents (PAQ-A) was used
to study the level of physical activity. A social network
analysis was carried out to analyse structural variables of
centrality in different degrees of contact.
Results 30.2% of the participants in our study were
overweight. Relative to female participants in this study,
males obtained significantly higher scores in the PAQ-A
(OR: 2.11; 95% CI: 1.04 to 4.25; p value: 0.036) and were
more likely to participate in group sport (OR: 4.59; 95%
CI: 2.28 to 9.22; p value: 0.000). We found no significant
relationship between physical activity and the weight
status in the total sample, but among female participants,
those with overweight status had higher odds of reporting
high levels of physical exercise (OR: 4.50; 95% CI: 1.21 to
16.74; p value: 0.025). In terms of centrality, differentiating
by gender, women who participated in group sports
were more likely to be classified as having low values of
centrality, while the opposite effect occurred for men, more
likely to be classified as having high values of centrality.
Conclusions Our findings, with limitations, underline the
importance of two fundamental aspects to be taken into
account in the design of future strategies: gender and
the centrality within the social network depending on the
intensity of contact they have with their peers.
URI
ISSN
2052-4897
DOI
10.1136/ bmjopen-2020-042773
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