K L Morton

Biographic Data

ID3801141
NAMEK L Morton
GIVEN NAMESK L
FAMILY NAMEMorton
SIGNATUREMORTON K L
AFFILIATIONSUKCRC Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), MRC Epidemiology Unit University of Cambridge Cambridge UK
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT2
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
H-INDEX1

  • The school environment and adolescent physical activity and sedentary behaviour

    Open AccessK L Morton, A J Atkin et al.ARTICLEObesity Reviews2016

    There is increasing academic and policy interest in interventions aiming to promote young people's health by ensuring that the school environment supports healthy behaviours. The purpose of this review was to summarize the current evidence on school‐based policy, physical and social‐environmental influences on adolescent physical activity and sedentary behaviour. Electronic databases were searched to identify studies that (1) involved healthy ado…

  • Transformational teaching and physical activity

    Open AccessK L Morton, Katie Morton et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Psychology2010Cited by: 4References: 21

    Drawing from transformational leadership theory, this research examined adolescent perceptions of transformational teaching within school-based physical education. In Study 1, focus groups with 62 adolescents examined perceptions of physical education teachers' behaviors. In Study 2, follow-up semi-structured interviews were conducted with 18 purposively sampled students. Findings revealed that behaviors within physical education settings can be …