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From primary to secondary school:

Changes in Scottish girls’ physical activity and the influence of maturation and perceptions of competence

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Date Published January 2009Catalogue No. Research Report no. 113ISBN 978 1 85060 539 3
Summary This research (by a research team at Heriot Watt University) investigates the decline in participation in sport by adolescent girls by following a group of Edinburgh girls for 18 months through the transition from primary to secondary school  examining relationships between physical activity, maturation and perceptions of competence.