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Motivation for Physical Activity among Norwegian Youth.
As a consequence of the experiences from The Goodness of Fit in Norwegian Youth Sport –study REPAC was developed as a multi-contextual, longitudinal and multi methodological study framed by recent perspectives from developmental science.īulie, M., Säfvenbom, R.valid research on the association between involvement in movement activities and youth development requires that we over a period of time “keep one eye on the continuing interaction between the individual and his or her world-wide environment, and the other on the equally continuing interaction between the mental, biological and behavioural factors within the individual” (Magnusson & Stattin, 1998: 694).the ambivalence of results in prior research with regard to adolescents’ alignment with and experiences from physical education, organized youth sports and self-organized movement activities requires further research (Biddle et al., 2011 Bulie, Säfvenbom & Haugen Dworkin & Larsson, 2006 Hardman, 2008 Jarvie, 2011 Larsson & Redelius, 2004 Säfvenbom, Geldhof & Bulie, 2014 Säfvenbom, Haugen & Bulie, 2014 Whitelaw et al., 2010).prior research on associations between participation in sports and physical education, and developmental indices to often suffers from straightforward analyses performed in isolated contexts (Haugen 2013 Haugen, Säfvenbom, & Ommundsen, 2013).However, in line with studies from Benson et al., (1999) our results showed that these developmental assets remains fragile and that the national scaffolding of developmental processes does not necessarily function as society would like to believe (Säfvenbom, Geldof & Haugen, 2014 Säfvenbom, Haugen & Bulie). school and local sport clubs are considered as major developmental assets which are supposed to foster adolescents’ developmental process.The Goodnes of fit-study was based on data from a random sample of 2055 Norwegian adolescents (mean age 15.3 years) and showed that The Relevance of Physical Activity Contexts in the every-day life of adolescents study (REPAC) prolongs the ideas behind the cross-sectional study, Goodness of Fit in Norwegian Youth Sport that was finalized in 2013. 4 Specific aims for three integrated sub-studiesġ0 Project management and members of project group