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- Title
Enhancing Physical Activity in Sedentary Women: Information, Locus of Control, and Attitudes.
- Authors
Long, Bonita C.; Haney, Colleen J.
- Abstract
This study assessed the efficacy of counseling sessions compared to a waitlist group on initiation of a physically active lifestyle. Sedentary women were randomly assigned to 1-hour counseling interviews or to a waitlist control. Subjects were administered the Exercise Locus of Control scales (McCready, 1984), the Revised Children's Attitude Toward Physical Activity inventory (Schutz, Smoll, & Wood, 1981a), a 7-day exercise history, activity satisfaction scales, and goal success scales. One month later they were assessed on level of exercise satisfaction, goal success, and 7-day exercise history. Repeated measures, multivariate analysis of variance indicated that the interviews helped initiate an active lifestyle compared to the waitlist group. Results of a stepwise multiple regression revealed that the best predictors of exercise initiation differed according to group membership. In general, waitlist subjects who depended less on powerful others for reinforcement and who did not view exercise as a means of risk taking and hard training were more likely to increase their physical activity. This regression was only a weak predictor of exercise initiation, however, as it explained just a small amount of variance.
- Subjects
WOMEN'S health; PHYSICAL fitness for women; PSYCHOLOGICAL research; EXERCISE for women; APPLIED psychology; LIFESTYLES; PHYSICAL fitness; MULTIVARIATE analysis
- Publication
Journal of Sport Psychology, 1986, Vol 8, Issue 1, p8
- ISSN
0163-433X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1123/jsp.8.1.8