Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine factors that influence exercise maintenance in an older population using the self-regulation of exercise maintenance model which focuses on the individual's personal meaning or interpretations of exercise. This study was the second of two phases. The aims of Phase I, the preliminary descriptive phase, were to identify qualitative descriptors of episode-specific interpretations of exercise in women, 60 years of age and older, immediately after an exercise episode. These qualitative descriptors were used to develop an instrument to measure episode-specific interpretations of exercise for the present study, Phase II. In Phase II, instruments that measure general and episode-specific interpretations of exercise were administered to older women (55 years of age and older). The primary aims of this phase were to evaluate the psychometric properties of the newly developed instruments measuring episode-specific and general interpretations of exercise and examine the contribution of episode-specific interpretations, a component of the self-regulation of exercise maintenance model, to the understanding of exercise behavior.
Sigma Membership
Epsilon Gamma at-Large
Type
Dissertation
Format Type
Text-based Document
Study Design/Type
Cross-Sectional
Research Approach
Quantitative Research
Keywords:
Exercise and Older Women, Continuance of Exercise, Women in Mid-life
Advisor
Edna Hamera
Degree
PhD
Degree Grantor
University of Kansas
Degree Year
1995
Recommended Citation
Schneider, Joanne K., "Self-regulation and exercise maintenance in older women" (2019). Dissertations. 1068.
https://www.sigmarepository.org/dissertations/1068
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Review Type
None: Degree-based Submission
Acquisition
Proxy-submission
Date of Issue
2019-09-13
Full Text of Presentation
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Description
This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 9609518; ProQuest document ID: 304205799. The author still retains copyright.