Self-Presentational Cognitions for Exercise in Female Adolescents

The study's main purpose was to clarify the role of a range of self-presentational cognitions in the relationship between social physique anxiety and exercise behavior. Female participants (N= 331; M age = 14.5 years) reported their exercise frequency and completed measures of self-presentation...

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Main Authors: Cumming, J., Thogersen-Ntoumani, Cecilie
Format: Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Inc. 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/53199
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description The study's main purpose was to clarify the role of a range of self-presentational cognitions in the relationship between social physique anxiety and exercise behavior. Female participants (N= 331; M age = 14.5 years) reported their exercise frequency and completed measures of self-presentation. Exercise frequency was positively predicted by self-presentational efficacy expectations (SPEE) and self-presentational outcome value (SPOV). Moreover, SPEE moderated the relationship between social physique anxiety (SPA) and exercise frequency. SPA was negatively related to exercise frequency when SPEE was high, but positively related to exercise frequency when SPEE was low. Therefore, interventions designed to increase exercise frequency among adolescent girls should include strategies that both reduce SPA and enhance SPEE and SPOV.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-531992017-10-26T06:29:38Z Self-Presentational Cognitions for Exercise in Female Adolescents Cumming, J. Thogersen-Ntoumani, Cecilie The study's main purpose was to clarify the role of a range of self-presentational cognitions in the relationship between social physique anxiety and exercise behavior. Female participants (N= 331; M age = 14.5 years) reported their exercise frequency and completed measures of self-presentation. Exercise frequency was positively predicted by self-presentational efficacy expectations (SPEE) and self-presentational outcome value (SPOV). Moreover, SPEE moderated the relationship between social physique anxiety (SPA) and exercise frequency. SPA was negatively related to exercise frequency when SPEE was high, but positively related to exercise frequency when SPEE was low. Therefore, interventions designed to increase exercise frequency among adolescent girls should include strategies that both reduce SPA and enhance SPEE and SPOV. 2011 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/53199 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2010.00720.x Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Inc. restricted
spellingShingle Cumming, J.
Thogersen-Ntoumani, Cecilie
Self-Presentational Cognitions for Exercise in Female Adolescents
title Self-Presentational Cognitions for Exercise in Female Adolescents
title_full Self-Presentational Cognitions for Exercise in Female Adolescents
title_fullStr Self-Presentational Cognitions for Exercise in Female Adolescents
title_full_unstemmed Self-Presentational Cognitions for Exercise in Female Adolescents
title_short Self-Presentational Cognitions for Exercise in Female Adolescents
title_sort self-presentational cognitions for exercise in female adolescents
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/53199