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Thind, Herpreet; Fava, Joseph; Traficante, Regina; Bock, Beth C. – American Journal of Health Education, 2016
Background: To increase physical activity among college students, new approaches are needed including the exploration of home-based exercise. However, research related to potential facilitators and barriers to exercising at home is limited. Purpose: The goal of this study was to develop a reliable and valid measure that can assess predictors of…
Descriptors: Exercise, Physical Activity Level, Construct Validity, Case Studies
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Hallam, Jeffrey S.; Petosa, Rick – Health Education & Behavior, 2004
Many work-site physical activity interventions use theoretical variables in the design of their programs. Yet, these interventions do not document the degree of change in theoretical variables produced by the intervention. This study examined the construct validity of an intervention designed to affect social cognitive theory variables linked to…
Descriptors: Exercise, Intervention, Self Efficacy, Construct Validity
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Rhodes, Ryan E.; Berry, Tanya; Naylor, Patti-Jean; Higgins, S. Joan Wharf – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2004
Though the processes of change are conceived as the core constructs of the transtheoretical model (TTM), few researchers have examined their construct validity in the physical activity domain. Further, only 1 study was designed to investigate the processes of change in an adolescent sample. The purpose of this study was to examine the exercise…
Descriptors: Exercise, Intervention, Structural Equation Models, Construct Validity