Michael A Kanters
Biographic Data
| ID | 337443 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael A Kanters |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael A |
| FAMILY NAME | Kanters |
| SIGNATURE | KANTERS M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Carolina State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1349-8090 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Objective Assessment of Physical Activity and Associated Contexts During High School Sport Practices
Background: Organized sports provide children and adolescents with opportunities to achieve recommended amounts of moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA), and schools are a primary setting for sports programs. The main aims of this study were to examine participant physical activity (PA) levels during the most popular high school sports in the United States and to assess the influences of practice contextual factors on PA levels. Methods: …
Family Leisure
Understanding the relationship between leisure and families has been and will continue to be an important area of study. The purpose of this study is to review existing family leisure research from four select journals between 1990 and 2012. Articles are examined for sample characteristics, methods, analytical approaches, and thematic trends. Overall, 181 articles regarding family leisure, leisure in context of family life or roles, and individua…
Place Disparities in Supportive Environments for Extracurricular Physical Activity in North Carolina Middle Schools
Disadvantaged rural youth may be especially at risk for obesity and poorer health due to physical inactivity. Research suggests that extracurricular school programs can increase physical activity for this population. This study sought to determine whether local differences existed in the availability of supportive environments for extracurricular physical activity in North Carolina middle schools. Multiple data sources, including a self-administe…
School sport policy and school-based physical activity environments and their association with observed physical activity in middle school children
Empirical research on the effects of school sport policies on children's physical activity is limited. This study examined sport policies (intramural vs. varsity), physical settings within schools, and supervision in relation to physical activity using the System for Observing Play and Leisure in Youth (SOPLAY). Data were collected on physical activity levels of children in four middle schools. Regression analyses assessed the main effects of spo…
Measurement Properties of Constraints to Sport Participation
Constraint are a major focus of theoretical and empirical study in leisure research. However, analyses of psychometric properties of constraints measures are rare. This study assessed the factor structure and invariance of a leisure constraints measure applied to sport participation among middle school adolescents (ages 11 to 15 years old) using panel data over two time periods nine months apart (N = 2,029). We compared the validity of three base…
Cognitive Structures of Adolescent Leisure Behavior
The study examines the perceptions adolescents have of their leisure behavior. It was motivated by a need to understand the increasing prevalence of what Curtis (1988) terms “Purple Recreation” or negative leisure in this age group. Two hundred and fifty two adolescents from a high school in southwestern Ontario responded to a computerized instrument that prompted them to indicate the degree of similarity of all possible pairs of a list of 20 lei…
Family Leisure
Understanding the relationship between leisure and families has been and will continue to be an important area of study. The purpose of this study is to review existing family leisure research from four select journals between 1990 and 2012. Articles are examined for sample characteristics, methods, analytical approaches, and thematic trends. Overall, 181 articles regarding family leisure, leisure in context of family life or roles, and individua…
Measurement Properties of Constraints to Sport Participation
Constraint are a major focus of theoretical and empirical study in leisure research. However, analyses of psychometric properties of constraints measures are rare. This study assessed the factor structure and invariance of a leisure constraints measure applied to sport participation among middle school adolescents (ages 11 to 15 years old) using panel data over two time periods nine months apart (N = 2,029). We compared the validity of three base…
Place Disparities in Supportive Environments for Extracurricular Physical Activity in North Carolina Middle Schools
Disadvantaged rural youth may be especially at risk for obesity and poorer health due to physical inactivity. Research suggests that extracurricular school programs can increase physical activity for this population. This study sought to determine whether local differences existed in the availability of supportive environments for extracurricular physical activity in North Carolina middle schools. Multiple data sources, including a self-administe…
School sport policy and school-based physical activity environments and their association with observed physical activity in middle school children
Empirical research on the effects of school sport policies on children's physical activity is limited. This study examined sport policies (intramural vs. varsity), physical settings within schools, and supervision in relation to physical activity using the System for Observing Play and Leisure in Youth (SOPLAY). Data were collected on physical activity levels of children in four middle schools. Regression analyses assessed the main effects of spo…
Cognitive Structures of Adolescent Leisure Behavior
The study examines the perceptions adolescents have of their leisure behavior. It was motivated by a need to understand the increasing prevalence of what Curtis (1988) terms “Purple Recreation” or negative leisure in this age group. Two hundred and fifty two adolescents from a high school in southwestern Ontario responded to a computerized instrument that prompted them to indicate the degree of similarity of all possible pairs of a list of 20 lei…
School sport policy and school-based physical activity environments and their association with observed physical activity in middle school children
Empirical research on the effects of school sport policies on children's physical activity is limited. This study examined sport policies (intramural vs. varsity), physical settings within schools, and supervision in relation to physical activity using the System for Observing Play and Leisure in Youth (SOPLAY). Data were collected on physical activity levels of children in four middle schools. Regression analyses assessed the main effects of spo…
Measurement Properties of Constraints to Sport Participation
Constraint are a major focus of theoretical and empirical study in leisure research. However, analyses of psychometric properties of constraints measures are rare. This study assessed the factor structure and invariance of a leisure constraints measure applied to sport participation among middle school adolescents (ages 11 to 15 years old) using panel data over two time periods nine months apart (N = 2,029). We compared the validity of three base…
Place Disparities in Supportive Environments for Extracurricular Physical Activity in North Carolina Middle Schools
Disadvantaged rural youth may be especially at risk for obesity and poorer health due to physical inactivity. Research suggests that extracurricular school programs can increase physical activity for this population. This study sought to determine whether local differences existed in the availability of supportive environments for extracurricular physical activity in North Carolina middle schools. Multiple data sources, including a self-administe…
Family Leisure
Understanding the relationship between leisure and families has been and will continue to be an important area of study. The purpose of this study is to review existing family leisure research from four select journals between 1990 and 2012. Articles are examined for sample characteristics, methods, analytical approaches, and thematic trends. Overall, 181 articles regarding family leisure, leisure in context of family life or roles, and individua…
Objective Assessment of Physical Activity and Associated Contexts During High School Sport Practices
Background: Organized sports provide children and adolescents with opportunities to achieve recommended amounts of moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA), and schools are a primary setting for sports programs. The main aims of this study were to examine participant physical activity (PA) levels during the most popular high school sports in the United States and to assess the influences of practice contextual factors on PA levels. Methods: …
Psychology (6 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (3 works) · Physical activity (3 works) · Physical therapy (3 works) · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)