%0 Journal Article
%T ¡®It doesn¡¯t seem like PE and I love it¡¯: Adolescent girls¡¯ views of a health club physical education approach
%A Gay Timken
%A Jeff McNamee
%A Sarah Coste
%J European Physical Education Review
%@ 1741-2749
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1356336X17706382
%X School-based physical education (PE) is the most efficient and cost-effective means of increasing girls¡¯ physical activity. Therefore, this project used a health club (HC) approach to alter a high school PE experience for 17 grade nine girls (M age = 14.6 ¡À .49). As part of a larger mixed-methods study, this qualitative element gauged adolescent girls¡¯ perceptions of their HC experience using the frameworks of interpretive description and practice-referenced research. Students participated in both pre- and post-intervention semi-structured focus group interviews and completed journals throughout the 14-week intervention. Results revealed autonomy as one organizing theme, including students reporting the importance of choice, variety, and novelty. A second organizing theme was relatedness, with subthemes specific to how girls appreciated having a single-gender PE experience, and their desire for a positive relationship with the research assistants who were leading the experience at the health club
%K Adolescent girls
%K physical education
%K physical activity
%K physical fitness
%K qualitative research
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1356336X17706382