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OCLC number
910983945
Author
Fast, Hilary Victoria Marie,
Title
Learned resourcefulness and exercise behaviour : the development and validation of the Exercise Resourcefulness Inventory.
Degree
M.A. -- Trent University, 2012
Publisher
Ottawa : Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, [2013]
©2012
Description
2 microfiches
Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract
<?Pub Inc> This investigation examined the self-regulatory strategies used when regularly exercising to create an inventory that measured these strategies, which are inadequately assessed by the Processes of Change Questionnaire (POCQ; Marcus et al., 1992). This investigation applied Rosenbaum's self-control model (1990) to understand these skills, a key component being learned resourcefulness. Learned resourcefulness is the self-regulatory strategies used to overcome obstacles, therefore, it would help to understand the skills needed to maintain exercise. In Study 1, interviews uncovered the strategies used to overcome obstacles and this was used to create the Exercise Resourcefulness Inventory (ERI). In Study 2, the validity of the ERI was determined and its ability to predict the stages of change was compared to the POCQ. In Study 3, the reliability of the ERI was established by having participants from Study 2 complete assessments again. Results indicated that the ERI assesses exercise self-regulatory strategies better than the POCQ. 'Keywords:' Learned resourcefulness; exercise resourcefulness; stages of change; processes of change; transtheoretical model
ISBN
9780494891629
0494891629