Predicting long-term maintenance of physical activity in older adults

How do i feel about the behavior? The interplay of affective associations with behaviors and cognitive beliefs as influences on physical activity behavior.

“…In this model, affective associations with activity behavior play a central role in the decision-making processes individuals use when deciding whether to engage in health-related behaviors, such as physical activity. Although our cross-sectional design precludes making causal statements about the relation between affective associations and activity behavior, the findings of our mediational analysis and the fact that an alternative mediational model did not account for the data, coupled with literature demonstrating that both cognitive beliefs and affective associations are causally antecedent to behavior (e.g., Courneya et al, 1999;McAuley et al, 2003;Quine et al, 2000), make the assertion that affective associations are a part of the process of decision making about activity behavior quite plausible.…”

Physical activity intervention in older adults: does a participating partner make a difference?

“…Social support is seen as one of the key factors to successfully overcome health compromising behaviors (e.g., McAuley et al 2003) and to cope with illnesses or functional limitations (Luszczynska et al 2007;Knoll et al 2007a). However, in a literature review on the effectiveness of social support interventions, Hogan et al (2002) reported mixed results.…”

“…Social support for physical activity in old age Although the evidence is somewhat inconsistent, many studies have found that favorable characteristics of social networks can have positive effects on the adoption and maintenance of physical activity in older adults (McAuley et al 2003;Stevens et al 2003). For example, social integration as reflected by marital status was found to be associated with the amount of physical activity (Garcia and King 1991;Irwin et al 2004;van Gool et al 2006), probably because spouses seem to be the primary source of support for many older adults (Dykstra and Fokkema 2007;Gallo et al 2003).…”

Self-regulation and physical activity in WKU employees

“…Self-efficacy is an established predictor of exercise levels (McAuley & Jacobson, 1991;McAuley, Jerome, Elavsky, Marquez, & Ramsey, 2003;Rovniak, Anderson, Winett, & Stephens, 2002) and exercise adherence (Fontaine & Shaw, 1995;Garcia & King, 1991;McAuley & Blissmer, 2000;McAuley et al, 2003). These effects have been studied in a multitude of different populations including: community members (Garcia & King, 1991;Poag-DuCharme & Brawley, 1993), university students and employees (Fontaine & Shaw, 1995;McAuley & Jacobson, 1991), overweight (Weinberg, Hughes, Critelli, England, & Jackson, 1984), elderly (Garcia & King, 1991;McAuley & Blissmer, 2000;McAuley et al, 2003), sedentary (Garcia & King, 1991;McAuley & Jacobson, 1991), and young adults (Rovniak et al, 2002).…”

“…These effects have been studied in a multitude of different populations including: community members (Garcia & King, 1991;Poag-DuCharme & Brawley, 1993), university students and employees (Fontaine & Shaw, 1995;McAuley & Jacobson, 1991), overweight (Weinberg, Hughes, Critelli, England, & Jackson, 1984), elderly (Garcia & King, 1991;McAuley & Blissmer, 2000;McAuley et al, 2003), sedentary (Garcia & King, 1991;McAuley & Jacobson, 1991), and young adults (Rovniak et al, 2002). High self-efficacy also leads to use of other theory based behaviors to enhance self-regulation such as goal setting, problem solving, and self-monitoring (Rovniak et al, 2002).…”