Does the Theory of Planned Behavior Mediate the Relation Between Personality and Exercise Behavior?

Impulsive and/or planned behaviour: Can impulsivity contribute to the predictive utility of the theory of planned behaviour?

“…Moreover, research has provided some evidence that individual difference variables might exert a direct impact on behaviour, over and above cognitions. For example, conscientiousness has been shown to explain variance in exercise behaviour over and above TPB predictors (Conner & Abraham, 2001; Courneya, Bobick, & Schinke, 1999).…”

Relationships between personality, an extended theory of planned behaviour model and exercise behaviour

“…Support for the TPB in the exercise domain is therefore robust, ranging from young adults (e.g. Courneya, Bobick, & Schinke, 1999) to diseased populations such as cancer patients (e.g. Courneya & Friedenreich, 1999).…”

“…Personality traits, de ned as generalized dimensions of individual differences in tendencies to show consistent patterns of thoughts, feelings, and actions (McCrae & Costa, 1990), are considered to be concepts external to the TPB. However, recent research examining the mediating effect of the TPB between personality and exercise behaviour among younger females has demonstrated that the TPB is insuf cient to account for personality completely (Courneya, Bobick, & Schinke, 1999;Rhodes, Courneya, & Jones, in press). In this research, the ve-factor model of personality (FFM) was utilized as a framework of personality.…”

No pain, no gain: insights into changing individual volitional behaviour

“…TPB suggests that an individual's intention to perform a behaviour is a key determinant of that behaviour because it accounts for particular motivational factors such as how hard an individual is willing to try (effort to be exerted to perform the behaviour) (Courneya, Bobick, & Schinke, 1999). TPB has been successfully used for predicting exercising intention and behaviour among adolescents (Mummery et al, 2000;Hamilton & White, 2008), adults (Godin, 1993;Lowe, Eves, & Carroll, 2002) and older persons (Courneya et al, 1998) and for mediating the relationship between personality and exercise behaviour (Courneya et al, 1999). Recently, TPB has also been used to explain technology-related behaviour such as mobile learning in higher education (Cheon, Lee, Crooks, & Song, 2012), cyberloafing (i.e.…”

“…negative, positive, instrumental and affective) will be examined in this study. Further, the work of Courneya et al (1999) suggests that studies on the TPB often overlook the influence of demographic characteristics such as age, gender, income and education as moderating factors. Given that physical activity participation rates vary with demographic factors such as age, this is an important omission (Cerin & Leslie, 2008;Giles-Corti & Donovan, 2002;Lindström, Hanson, & Östergren, 2001;McAuley et al, 2003;Talbot, Metter, & Fleg, 2000).…”