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Published in final edited form as: Prev Med. 2006 Dec 6;44(2):153–159. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2006.10.001

Table 4.

Pearson correlations with study variables and family support and total METs by grade for girls from South Carolina (1998–2003)

Variable	8th	9th	12th
	Correlations with Family Support
Total METs	0.26^***	0.23^***	0.26^***
BMI	−0.02	<0.01	−0.03
BMI percentile	<0.01	0.01	0.03
Attitudes	0.12^*	0.10^*	0.13^*
Perceived Behavioral Control	0.22^***	0.23^***	0.23^***
Self-Efficacy	0.30^***	0.23^***	0.17^**
Sport Equipment	0.19^***	0.09	0.07
	Correlations with Total METs
BMI	− 0.09^*	−0.09^*	<0.01
BMI percentile	−0.09^*	−0.07	0.02
Attitudes	0.22^**	0.30^***	0.24^***
Perceived Behavioral Control	0.29^***	0.38^***	0.17^**
Self-Efficacy	0.40^***	0.46^***	0.27^***
Sport Equipment	0.24^***	0.22^***	0.19^***

p<.10

^**

p<.05

^***

p<.10