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Physical activity among Chinese international students in American higher education : from quantitative and qualitative perspectives

Creator:

Yan, Zi

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Chinese international students in American colleges and universities report low levels of physical activity involvement, which may limit them in terms of realizing their full human potential (i.e., cognitively, physically, socially). The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate the psychosocial mechanisms as well as the sociocultural influences to understand...

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United States for the purpose of pursuing higher education, and Chinese international students
Cross-cultural comparison of college students' physical activity behaviors in the US and ROC using transtheoretical model constructs

Creator:

Flath, Sharon Chai

Abstract:

This was a cross-cultural comparative study that examined college students' physical activity behavior in both the United States and the Republic of China on the basis of the full Transtheoretical Model (TTM) of behavior change. Although current investigations do support TTM as a powerful model of physical activity behavior change,...

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Dissertation

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behavior in both the United States and the Republic of China on the basis of the full Transtheoretical