Agreement between student-reported and proxy-reported physical activity questionnaires

Parents and 531 students (46% males, 78% white) completed equivalent questionnaires. Agreement between student and parent responses to questions about hypothesized physical activity (PA) correlates was assessed. Relationships between hypothesized correlates and an objective measure of student's moderateto-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) in a subset of 177 students were also investigated. Agreement between student and parent ranged from r =.34 to.64 for PA correlates. Spearman correlations between MVPA and PA correlates ranged from -.04 to.21 for student report and 14 to .32 for parent report, and there were no statistical differences for 8 out of 9 correlations between parent and student. Parents can provide useful data on PA correlates for students in Grades 7-12.