Factores personales, sociales y ambientales que influencian los niveles de actividad física de los adolescentes aragoneses

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Abstract Understanding the social and environmental factors that influence physical activity (PA) is important in the development of effective interventions to increase PA behavior in adolescents. The aims of this study were a) to use perceived competence and enjoyment as predictors of adolescents' PA; b) to evaluate the influence of significant others: mothers, fathers, friends, PE teachers; c) to integrate the province as an environmental variable in the proposed model. A sample of 1618 adolescents, 14.46 (1.28) years, completed questionnaires to assess perceived competence and enjoyment, influence of significant others and PA. Results indicated that perceived competence and enjoyment positively predicted PA at the personal level. At the social level, the influence of fathers and friends positively affected perceived competence and enjoyment, whereas the effect of the physical education teachers was negative and no effect of mothers was found. At the environmental level, no effect was found.