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- Title
Older Women's Personal Goals and Exercise Activity: An 8-Year Follow-Up.
- Authors
Saajanaho, Milla; Viljanen, Anne; Read, Sanna; Rantakokko, Merja; Tsai, Li-Tang; Kaprio, Jaakko; Jylhä, Marja; Rantanen, Taina
- Abstract
This study investigated the associations of personal goals with exercise activity, as well as the relationships between exercise-related and other personal goals, among older women. Both cross-sectional and longitudinal designs were used with a sample of 308 women ages 66-79 at baseline. Women who reported exercise-related personal goals were 4 times as likely to report high exercise activity at baseline than those who did not report exercise-related goals. Longitudinal results were parallel. Goals related to cultural activities, as well as to busying oneself around the home, coincided with exercise-related goals, whereas goals related to own and other people’s health and independent living lowered the odds of having exercise-related goals. Helping older adults to set realistic exercise-related goals that are compatible with their other life goals may yield an increase in their exercise activity, but this should be evaluated in a controlled trial.
- Subjects
FINLAND; EXERCISE; CONFIDENCE intervals; GOAL (Psychology); INTERVIEWING; LONGITUDINAL method; MOTIVATION (Psychology); PROBABILITY theory; PSYCHOLOGICAL tests; RESEARCH funding; SELF-evaluation; STATISTICS; DATA analysis; CROSS-sectional method; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ODDS ratio; OLD age
- Publication
Journal of Aging & Physical Activity, 2014, Vol 22, Issue 3, p386
- ISSN
1063-8652
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1123/japa.22.3.386