Childhood temperament predictors of adolescent physical activity

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Table 2 Descriptive statistics of childhood temperament and adolescent physical activity variables

	Overall (N = 206)		Males (N = 89)		Females (N = 117)		Sex Difference^a
Variable	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD
Childhood (4/5 years)
SES	41.89	9.79	42.68	9.10	41.21	10.34
TAL	4.96	0.70	5.15	0.64	4.80	0.72	**
HIP	5.11	0.74	5.31	0.73	4.95	0.72	**
LIP	5.49	0.58	5.27	0.57	5.67	0.52	**
SUR	4.87	0.64	5.01	0.66	4.74	0.60	**
Adolescence (15/16 years)
Strenuous PA^b	3.22	3.05	4.11	3.67	2.53	2.29	**
Godin Score	51.84	38.91	61.01	47.75	44.91	29.17
BMI	24.15	6.20	24.02	6.42	24.24	6.06
Days of PA^c	%		%		%
0 days	16.9		12.5		20.0		^†
1-4 days	35.0		31.8		36.0
5-7 days	48.1		55.7		44.0

^† p < .10, *p < .05, **p < .01; PA = Physical activity; SES = Socioeconomic status; TAL = Temperamental activity level; HIP = High intensity pleasure; LIP = Low intensity pleasure; SUR = Surgency; ^a independent-samples t-test, except where noted; ^bresults of t-test did not substantively differ whether variable was raw or winsorized; ^cWilcoxon-Mann—Whitney U test statistic

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