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Physical activity, physical fitness and academic performance among adolescents: Intervention effects from the School in Motion study: A cluster randomized controlled trial
(Doctoral thesis, 2022)Introduction: Emerging evidence suggests a favourable relationship between physical activity, aerobic fitness and academic performance. Recent data show that physical activity levels decrease through adolescence, whilst ... -
Physical activity, physical fitness and cardiovascular disease risk factors in Norwegian children and adolescents : the Physical Activity among Norwegian Children Study
(Doctoral thesis, 2009)There is a scarcity of data on the current levels and secular trends in physical activity, physical fitness, and their relationship with key risk factors for diseases such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease ... -
Physical activity, sedentary behavior, and long-term cardiovascular risk in young people: A review and discussion of methodology in prospective studies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-06)The long-term effects of physical activity (PA) or sedentary behavior on cardiovascular health in young people are not well understood. In this study, we use a narrative format to review the evidence for a prospective ... -
Physical activity, sedentary time and adiposity during the first two decades of life
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-02-19)High amounts of time spent sedentary and low levels of physical activity have been implicated in the process of excessive adiposity gains in youth. The aim of this review is to discuss the role of physical activity, sedentary ... -
Physical activity, sedentary time and gain in overall and central body fat: 7-year follow-up of the ProActive trial cohort
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-05-20)Objective: The objective of this study is to examine the independent associations of time spent in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and sedentary (SED-time), with total and abdominal body fat (BF), and the ... -
Physical activity, stress, coping and life-satisfaction among persons with motor complete spinal cord injury
(Master thesis, 2013)Background: Being physically active is associated with improved physical fitness, health and psychological well being in persons with spinal cord injury (SCI). Even so, the level of physical activity is still low in this ... -
Physical activity: Associations with health and summary of guidelines
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The understanding of how physical activity and insufficient physical activity are associated with health outcomes has increased considerably over the past decades. Along with physical activity, the evidence on the associations ... -
The physical behaviour intensity spectrum and body mass index in school-aged youth: A compositional analysis of pooled individual participant data
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)We examined the compositional associations between the intensity spectrum derived from incremental acceleration intensity bands and the body mass index (BMI) z-score in youth, and investigated the estimated differences in ... -
Physical characteristics and physical fitness in Norwegian junior elite team handball players: A cross-sectional study
(Master thesis, 2018)Purpose: Modern elite team handball is an intermittent sport characterized by technical and tactical skills, psychosocial behavior, physical characteristics and physical demands. The aim of the study was to examine physical ... -
Physical demands in elite female team handball : Analyses of high intensity events in match and training data via inertial measurement units
(Doctoral thesis, 2018)Developments in tracking technology have made it possible to get more accurate insights into the physical demands of team sports, including indoor sports where global navigation satellite systems cannot be used. The main ... -
Physical education as a developmental asset in the everyday life of adolescents. A relational approach to the study of basic need satisfaction in PE and global self-worth development
(Doctoral thesis, 2020)Introduction: The Norwegian physical education (PE) curriculum describes PE as a subject concerned with students’ positive development and learning (Utdanningsdirektoratet [the Norwegian Directorate for Education and ... -
Physical education in Scandinavia with a focus on Sweden : a comparative perspective
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008)PURPOSE: The purpose of this paper is to investigate meanings attached to physical education in the Scandinavian countries through (1) the different national syllabi; and (2) interpretations and conclusions researchers ... -
Physical education teacher education in Norway: The perceptions of student teachers
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-09-10)A feature of academic literature on physical education teacher education (PETE) is the expectation that it can and should impact upon student teachers' beliefs and prospective practices in some significant ways. This is ... -
Physical education teacher education on the education market - who's defining what physical education teachers need to know?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-03-19)Background: A major consequence of the neo-liberal ideology underpinning recent reforms in higher education in the Western world has been the significant increase in the competitiveness of institutions to recruit students ... -
Physical education, diversity and inclusion: Students’ narratives of inclusion and exclusion from an intersectional perspective
(Doctoral thesis, 2020)An increasing number of international studies have shown both that some students experience exclusion and marginalization in physical education (PE) and that these phenomena often are linked to students’ gender, sexuality, ... -
Physical education-related home–school collaboration: The experiences of parents of children with disabilities
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)In this hermeneutic phenomenological study, we describe the physical education (PE)-related home–school collaboration as experienced by parents of children with disabilities. We further explore which conditions parents ... -
Physical exercise and social inequality in Norway: a comparison of OLS and quantile regression analysis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)About two thirds of the Norwegian population exercise less than recommended by public authorities. Traditional studies of exercise and social inequality using OLS-regression give us information on the average person ... -
Physical fitness and physical activity in Norwegian home guard soldiers: a cross-sectional and method comparison study
(Doctoral thesis, 2017)INTRODUCTION: Physical fitness is an important attribute in soldiers because military work may be physically demanding. To ensure that military personnel are “fit to fight”, soldiers are typically selected and evaluated ... -
Physical fitness and psychological hardiness as predictors of parasympathetic control in response to stress: a Norwegian police simulator training study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The individual biopsychological response to a specific stressor is the result of a complex interplay between many different factors including physiology, behavior, and personality. The goal of the present study was to ... -
Physical fitness in relation to transport to school in adolescents: the Danish youth and sports study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008-05-19)In many Western countries, there are concerns about declining levels of physical activity in school-aged children. Active transport is one way to increase physical activity in children, but few studies have evaluated whether ...