Cross-cultural analysis of constructions of health and fitness in lives of young people

该项目旨在扩大我们对加拿大和澳大利亚年轻人如何构建健康和健身概念的理解，以及这些结构对他们看待自己的方式和他们如何生活的选择的影响。在澳大利亚和加拿大的六个地点收集的数据涵盖了一系列定量和定性方法，从问卷调查到访谈，活动观察和视觉媒体，如照片。跨文化比较将有助于突出英语，法语，加拿大，澳大利亚和全球文化的各个方面，孤立地研究可能不会出现“重要”的那些沉浸在一个特定的文化。通过将现有的澳大利亚项目与新设立的加拿大项目结合起来，可以利用澳大利亚和加拿大调查人员的不同专门知识来分析和解释数据。

This project aims to extend our understanding of how young people in Canada and Australia construct notions of health and fitness and the implications of these constructions for the ways they see themselves and the choices they make about how they live their lives. The data collected at six sites in Australia and Canada covers a range of quantitative and qualitative methods, from questionnaires to interviews, activity observations, and visual media such as photographs. The cross-cultural comparison will serve to highlight aspects of Anglophone, Francophone, Canadian, Australian and global culture that examining in isolation may not appear 'important' to those immersed within a given culture. By bringing the existing Australian project together with a newly established Canadian project, the different expertise of the Australian and Canadian Investigators can be drawn on for the analysis and interpretation of the data.