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20 BRASSAI LÁSZLÓ – PIKÓ BETTINATHE ROLE OF PERSONAL AND FAMILIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORSIN REGULARITY OF ADOLESCENTS’ PHYSICAL ACTIVITY(SUMMARY)The preventive effects of regular physical avtivity in adolescence imply both the actual and adulthealth status. As an important protective factor of adult healthy lifestyle, the study of its influentialvariables is a key area of research. In the present study we focus on individual and familial/interpersonalfactors of physical activity among 15–19-year-old transylvanian adolescents. Data werecollected from 1977 secondary school students by using a self-administered questionnaire. Our researchdraws the attention to the decisive role of cognitive-controlling factors, although for secondaryschool students from lower grades the effect of familial/interpersonal influences of their regularphysical activity is still determinant. Our results, in concordance with international research results,highlight gender differences in the role of intra- and interpersonal effects and emphasize the decisiverole of father in both boys’ and girls’ regular physical activity.Keywords: adolescents, physical activity, cognitive-controlling variables, familial/interpersonal factors