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Brendan J. Smith; Joanne McVeigh; Dominika Kwasnicka; Hugh Riddell; Eleanor Quested – Health Education Journal, 2025
Background: Sufficient physical activity (PA) is important to reduce the risk of men developing chronic diseases and to improve mental health. The effectiveness of PA programmes can vary, however, among men. Individual and socio-psychological characteristics may affect the level of men's PA before starting a behaviour change programme as well as…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Predictor Variables, Physical Activity Level, Males
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Tinning, Richard – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2020
This paper is about 'fat' kids in HPE classes. The motivation for this paper comes as a personal response to my reading of Roxane Gay's book "Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body." "Hunger" is thoughtful, passionate, articulate, sad and overall troubling. It also raised questions for me about whether health and physical education…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Body Composition, Obesity, Psychological Patterns