The Study of Exercise Participation Motivation, Self-Efficacy, Perceived Exercise Barrier and Exercise BehaviorThe Study of Exercise Participation Motivation, Self-Efficacy, Perceived Exercise Barrier and Exercise BehaviorThe Study of Exercise Partici

• Main Authors: ying-Mei Tsai, 蔡英美
• Other Authors: Jann-Ming Wang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/22300392684699866461

碩士 === 國立體育學院 === 體育研究所 === 93 === Abstract The purposes of this study were : 1. to compare the differences of exercise participation motivation, self-efficacy, perceived exercise barrier and exercise behavior among middle-aged persons with different demographic variables; 2) to explore the prediction of exercise participation motivation, self-efficacy, perceived exercise barrier on exercise behavior. There were 661 middle-age participants (male=246, female=415) with a mean age of 48.23+6.05 drawn from Taichung city. All the participants were administered with Exercise Participation Motivation Inventory, Self-efficacy Inventory, and Perceived Exercise Barrier Inventory. The collected data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, t-test (independent), one-way ANOVA (independent), Pearson’s product-moment correlations, and multiple stepwise regression analysis. The findings were as follows: 1. The difference of exercise participation motivation between middle- aged persons with different demographic variables. Female had higher scores than male on “psychological needs”, “prevention of disease” and “social needs.” There were also differences on “psychological needs”, “prevention of disease” among each age group. Besides, the 40-44 age group had higher score than the other four groups on psychological needs. Also, there was no difference between married and unmarried participants. Moreover, college graduated participants showed higher scores on “psychological needs”, “prevention of disease”, and “weight management” than the other groups. The working group had higher scores of “social need” than the other groups. 2. The difference of self-efficacy between middle-aged persons with different demographic variables. There wan not any difference of self-efficacy between middle-aged persons with different sex, age, married condition, education degree, and work condition. 3. The difference of perceived exercise barrier between middle-aged persons with different demographic variables. There wan not any difference of perceived exercise barrier between middle-aged persons with different sex, age, married condition and education degree. The waiting-for-job group had higher score than the working group, family management group, and retired group. 4. The difference of exercise barrier between middle-aged persons with different demographic variables. There was no difference of exercise behavior between middle-aged persons with different sex, married condition and education degree. The 60-64 age group had higher score than 40-44 age group and 45-49 age group on exercise behavior. And the retired group had higher score than that of the family management group, working group, and waiting-for-job group. 5. The prediction of exercise participation motivation, self-efficacy, and perceived exercise behavior on exercise behavior. Self-efficacy, perceived exercise barrier, and integrated benefit could explain 13.8% of the total variance of exercise behavior. The findings were explained and the applications of this study were discussed. Additionally, there were some suggestions for the future studies were offered.