Why Exercise at Work: Development of the Office Exercise Behavior Determinants Scale

Why don't you exercise? Development of the Amotivation Toward Exercise Scale among older inactive individuals.

This article reports on the development and initial validation of the Amotivation Toward Exercise Scale (ATES), which reflects a taxonomy of older adults' reasons to refrain from exercise. Drawing on work by Pelletier, Dion, Tuson, and Green-Demers (1999) and Legault, Green-Demers, and Pelletier (2006), these dimensions were the outcome beliefs, capacity beliefs, effort beliefs, and value amoti...

The development of a self-efficacy scale for exercise behavior.

The purpose of the study was to develop a self-efficacy scale for exercise behavior. The draft items of self-efficacy scale were chosen from the previous studies, and were modified to reflect the socioeconomic differences in the target population. Ratings were made on a 3-point Likert-type scale. The self-efficacy scale was administered to 647 employees in a Japanese manufacturing company in 19...

Psychometric Properties of the Exercise Causality Orientations Scale

The Exercise Causality Orientations Scale-2 (ECOS-2) has been designed to evaluate causality orientations in exercise based on the Self Determination Theory. The purpose of this research was to determine the reliability and validity of ECOS-2 in women of Mashhad. 402 women entered the study using the convenience sampling method and completed ECOS-2. The Confirmatory factor analysis result demon...

Osteoarthritis - Why Exercise?

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative joint disease and a leading cause of adult disability. The etiology of OA is not clear, but common risk factors for developing OA include age, joint injury, mechanical overuse, and obesity. Exercise is the most common non-pharmacologic therapy prescribed to patients with osteoarthritis. The Arthritis Foundation promotes an exercise program involving low-imp...

Why exercise works magic.