Factors Associated with Male Workers’ Engagement in Physical Activity

Determinants of Employee Participation in Physical Activity

“…(1990), however, reported that adoption of a health-promoting lifestyle among female workers increased with age. In contrast to the pre-viously described studies, Desmond et al (1993) reported that age was not a statistically significant predictor of participation in physical activity. The researchers suggested that one reason age failed to account for variance was that little variation in age existed among the study sample.…”

“…Duffy et al (1996) found that the positive association between education and regular exercise existed only for women. However, Desmond et al (1993) and Pender et al (1990) found no association between education and participation in physical activity. Approximately 80% to 90% of the two study samples had attended or completed high school and college, so little variation existed in education level.…”

“…Three studies examined the association between income and participation in physical activity. Desmond et al (1993) reported that workers with higher incomes tended to participate more in work-related physical activity, but not in sports activity, leisure-time activity, or overall physical activity. The researchers suggested that this relationship could have been because those with higher incomes may have accumulated more overtime work and thus had more opportunity to participate in work-related physical activity and less opportunity for leisure-time activity.…”

“…In three studies (Desmond et al, 1993;Pender et al, 1990;Piazza et al, 2001), the Health Promotion Model (Pender, 1987) was specified as the theoretical framework. The 1987 version of the Health Promotion Model identified cognitive perceptual factors in the individual that, when modified by situational, personal, and interpersonal characteristics, result in participation in health-promoting behaviors, including physical activity.…”

“…Several studies examined the association between the level of physical activity and demographics such as age (Boutelle et al, 2000;Bum et al, 1999;Burton & Turrell, 2000;Desmond et al, 1993;Duffy et al, 1996;Pender et al, 1990;Piazza et al, 2001), gender (Boutelle et al, 2000;Burton & Turrell, 2000;Pender et al, 1990), ethnicity (Boutelle et al, 2000), marital status (Boutelle et al, 2000;Burton & Turrell, 2000;Duffy et al, 1996;Pender et al, 1990), income (Desmond et al, 1993;Duffy et al, 1996;Pender et al, 1990), education (Boutelle et al, 2000;Desmond et al, 1993;Duffy et al, 1996;Pender et al, 1990), hours worked (Burton & Turrell, 2000), and job category (Boutelle et al, 2000;Burton & Turrell, 2000;Duffy et al, 1996).…”