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. 2018 Aug 15;18:1012. doi: 10.1186/s12889-018-5955-y

Table 1.

Characteristics of participants at Time 1 and Time 2 (N = 187) and p-values for the outcome variables

Variable Time 1 (T1) Time 2 (T2) p-value
N % M SD N % M SD
Personal characteristics
 Sex 187
  Boys 149 79.7
  Girls 38 20.3
Age (years) 186 14.41 1.47
Youth development
 SDQ (total) 170 10.89 5.00 171 11.18 4.88 .67
 Pro-social behaviour 185 7.42 1.90 184 7.36 1.89 .55
 School performance 187 3.30 0.82 187 3.29 0.83 .84
 Subjective health 187 3.44 1.05 187 3.43 0.92 .76
 Well-being 187 3.40 1.00 187 3.35 0.86 .59
Assets
 Self-regulation skills
  Planning 147 2.42 0.58 141 2.46 0.62 .71
  Monitoring 149 2.54 0.57 139 2.50 0.64 .48
  Effort 149 2.69 0.51 137 2.67 0.51 .34
Sense of coherence
 Sense of coherence 178 34.09 7.82 180 33.52 7.77 .29
Sports participation
 Frequency of sport (average week) 186 186
  Did not sport 50 26.9 54 29.0
  1 or 2 times a week 70 37.6 63 33.8
  3 or more times a week 66 35.5 69 37.1
 Duration of sport (average per activity) 185 185
  Did not sport 50 27.0 55 29.7
   < ½ an hour 7 3.8 9 4.9
  Between ½ - 1 h 17 9.2 13 7.0
  Between 1 and 2 h 93 50.3 95 51.4
  Between 2 and 3 h 10 5.4 9 4.9
  Longer than 3 h 8 4.3 4 2.2
 Membership of sports/fitness club 186 185
  No 84 45.2 97 52.4
  Yes 102 54.8 88 47.6

SDQ total Strengths and Difficulties. Scale range: SDQ total (0–40); pro-social behaviour (0–10); school performance, subjective health, and well-being (1–5); planning, monitoring, and effort (1–4); reflection (1–5); sense of coherence (0–52)