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Girls participating in sports show improved behavior, attentiveness in early adolescence – News-Medical.Net
Girls – but not boys – who participate actively in school sports activities in middle childhood show improved behavior and attentiveness in early adolescence, s…
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Sep 29 2020
Girls – but not boys – who participate actively in school sports activities in middle childhood show improved behavior and attentiveness in early adolescence, suggests a new Canadian study published in Preventative Medicine.
Girls who do regular extracurricular sports between ages 6 and 10 show fewer symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) at age 12, compared to girls who seldom do.”
Linda Pagani, Professor, School of Psychoedu…
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