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OCLC number
46550699
Author
Estabrooks, Paul A.
Title
Self-schema as a predictor of exercise participation in undergraduate students.
Degree
M. Sc. -- University of Calgary, 1996
Publisher
Ottawa : National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997.
Description
1 microfiche.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract
The purpose of the study was to determine if exercise self-schema predicts exercise participation and moderates the exercise intention-behavior relationship. Participants (n = 983) were University of Calgary undergraduates. Participants completed one questionnaire that included Kendzierski's (1988) self-schema measure, intention items for moderate and strenuous exercise, and exercise at university facilities. Questionnaire two, given after four weeks of monitoring exercise at university facilities, included exercise behavior items. Categorization resulted in 527 exerciser self-schematics, 106 aschematics, 52 nonexerciser self-schematics, and 298 unclassified participants. Kruskal-Wallis tests determined exercisers reported intending to and exercising more often than aschematics and nonexercisers for all measures (p $<$.01). Fischer Z transformations revealed excercise self-schema did moderate between exercise intention and exercise, however only partially supporting the hypothesis that exercisers would have higher correlations than aschematics or nonexercisers. Discussion focused on overcoming schematic assessment problems, offered explanation of results, and proposed future exercise self-schema research to be done.
ISBN
0612187470
9780612187474