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. 2004 Jul;32(3):95-9.
doi: 10.1097/00003677-200407000-00004.

A multilevel approach to youth physical activity research

Susan C Duncan  1 , Terry E Duncan, Lisa A Strycker, Nigel R Chaumeton
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A multilevel approach to youth physical activity research

Susan C Duncan et al. Exerc Sport Sci Rev. 2004 Jul.

Abstract

Social environment factors are hypothesized to interact with individual-level factors to influence youth physical activity. Multilevel analytic approaches are ideal for examining the influence of the social environment on youth physical activity as they allow examination of research questions across multiple contexts and levels ( e.g., individual, family, and neighborhood levels).

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An example of a multilevel model to examine youth physical activity.
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Representation of the cohort-sequential design for the youth physical activity study depicting the three age cohorts (ages 10, 12, and 14) and four annual assessments within an accelerated latent growth curve model.
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Figure 3
Multilevel neighborhood structural equation model showing the decomposition of individual-level variables into their within- and between-level variance components and the effects of social contextual variables on the between-level variables (i.e., the nonresidential variables) and the between-level components of the individual-level variables.
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