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High School Students' Physical Health: Associations With Intrapersonal, Family, Peer, Academic, And Risk Behavior Factors, Kathryn Therese Combs
High School Students' Physical Health: Associations With Intrapersonal, Family, Peer, Academic, And Risk Behavior Factors, Kathryn Therese Combs
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ABSTRACT
High School Students’ Physical Health: Associations with Intrapersonal,
Family, Peer, Academic, and Risk Behavior Factors
by
KATHRYN THERESE COMBS
MARCH 2016
Advisor: Dr. Cheryl Somers
Major: Educational Psychology
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy
A significant body of research and literature supports the need to address the obesity epidemic as it pertains to children and adolescents. Research has suggested that a multitude of factors are associated with overweight status. This study explored the relationships among weight status (represented in the current study by BMI), key environmental contexts that adolescents are concurrently exposed to, including family and peer relationships, and intrapersonal variables, …