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Relationships among Self-Schema, Intention, and Exercise Behavior

1997; Human Kinetics; Volume: 19; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1123/jsep.19.2.156

1543-2904

Paul A. Estabrooks, Kerry S. Courneya,

Digital Mental Health Interventions

The purpose of the study was to determine if exercise self-schema predicts exercise participation and moderates the exercise intention-behavior relationship. Participants were undergraduate students categorized into exerciser schematics ( n = 527), nonexerciser schematics ( n = 52), and aschematics ( n = 106). The first of two questionnaires, given 4 weeks apart, included intention items for moderate and strenuous exercise, and exercise at university facilities. The second questionnaire included self-reported exercise items. Attendance at the university fitness facilities was monitored during the 4-week period between questionnaires. Kruskal-Wallis tests determined exerciser schematics reported intending to and exercising more often than aschematics and nonexerciser schematics for all measures ( p < .01). Fischer z transformations revealed partial support for the hypothesis that exerciser schematics would have a higher correlation between intention and exercise than aschematics or nonexerciser schematics. Discussion focused on overcoming schematic assessment problems, offered explanation of results, and proposed future exercise self-schema research.