Title
Moderation of Age, Sex, and Ethnicity on Psychosocial Predictors of Increased Exercise and Improved Eating
Department
Health Promotion & Physical Education
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-2013
Abstract
Although research indicates that treatment-induced improvements in self-regulation, mood, and self-efficacy significantly predict increased exercise and improved eating, moderation by participants’ personal characteristics is largely unknown. Severely obese adults (N= 414; 47% White, 53% African American) volunteered for a behavioral exercise and nutrition treatment and demonstrated significant within-group improvements in self-efficacy for exercise, self-regulation for exercise, mood, self-efficacy for controlled eating, self-regulation for controlled eating, exercise volume, and fruit and vegetable intake over 26 weeks. After testing age, sex, and race/ethnicity as possible moderators of the prediction of changes in exercise volume and fruit and vegetable consumption by changes in self-regulation, mood, and self-efficacy, only age significantly moderated change in volume of exercise. Implications for theory and treatment were discussed.
Recommended Citation
Annesi J. Moderation of Age, Sex, and Ethnicity on Psychosocial Predictors of Increased Exercise and Improved Eating. Journal Of Psychology. September 2013; 147(5): 455-468.