Association between Physical Activity and Substance Use Behaviors among High School Students Participating in the 2009 Youth Risk Behavior Survey
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This study examined the relationship between physical activity, physical education class, and sports participation on the substance use practices of adolescents. Data was derived from the 2009 Youth Risk Behavior Survey study of adolescent behaviors. The results of this study indicated that recreational physical activity, attending PE class, and participating in sports were independent protective factors for many cigarette use behaviors but not for smokeless tobacco use. Additionally, recreational physical activity and sports participation appears to be a protective factor for marijuana use among females but not males. On the other hand, recreational physical activity and sports participation appears to be a risk factor for alcohol use behaviors among males.
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Recreational physical activity and participating in sports are independent protective factors for tobacco use behaviors but not smokeless tobacco use, and are protective for marijuana use in females but not males.
“Recreational physical activity and participating in sports are independent protective factors for tobacco use behaviors but not smokeless tobacco use and are protective for marijuana use in females but not males.3”
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- Authors
- Dunn, M. S.
- Affiliations
- Coastal Carolina University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Dunn, Michael S.
- ORCID
- Dunn, Michael S.
- Venue
- Psychological Reports
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2014-06
- Volume
- 114
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 675-685
- ISSN
- 0033-2941 (ISSN-L)
- 1558-691X
- OpenAlex
- W2004510066
- Cited by
- 48
- References
- 24
- Citations by year
- 2025: 4 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 3.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychological Reports (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Physical Activity and Health
- Social Sciences › Life-span and Life-course Studies › Sports and Physical Education Studies
- Keywords
- physical activity, substance use, adolescents, high school students, physical education, sports participation, leisure-time physical activity, cigarette smoking, smokeless tobacco, cannabis use, alcohol consumption, protective factors, sex differences
- MeSH terms
- Smoking Prevention, Adolescent, Alcoholism, Marijuana Abuse, Female, Health Surveys, Humans, Male, Motor Activity, Physical Education and Training, Risk-Taking, Sex Factors, Smoking, Sports, Students, Tobacco Use Disorder, Tobacco, Smokeless, United States, Substance-Related Disorders
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