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23-12-2020 | Brief Report

Social predictors of daily relations between college women’s physical activity intentions and behavior

Auteurs: Leah M. Schumacher, Coco Thomas, M. Cole Ainsworth, Danielle Arigo

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Behavioral Medicine | Uitgave 2/2021

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Abstract

Women perform less physical activity (PA) than men, and this gap widens during college. This study examined college women’s daily PA intentions and behavior, and whether social support or social comparison orientation (SCO) moderated the PA intention-behavior relation. College women (N = 80) completed measures of social support and SCO at baseline. For seven consecutive days, participants completed an electronic survey to assess PA intentions and wore an activity monitor to assess minutes of moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity (MVPA). Results indicated that intended and performed MVPA minutes were weakly related (p = 0.17, sr = 0.16). Social support did not moderate the intention-behavior relation, but SCO did (p = 0.04, sr = 0.21). Participants with stronger (vs. weaker) SCO, particularly a tendency to compare downward (i.e., to worse-off others), showed smaller discrepancies between intended and completed MVPA. College women frequently fail to achieve PA goals, but stronger tendencies to make (downward) social comparisons may minimize this gap and be a target for intervention.
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Titel
Social predictors of daily relations between college women’s physical activity intentions and behavior
Auteurs
Leah M. Schumacher
Coco Thomas
M. Cole Ainsworth
Danielle Arigo
Publicatiedatum
23-12-2020
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Journal of Behavioral Medicine / Uitgave 2/2021
Print ISSN: 0160-7715
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3521
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10865-020-00166-x