Showing papers by "Taru Lintunen published in 2007"
TL;DR: Those with severely limited mobility more often reported poor health, fear and negative experiences, lack of company, and an unsuitable environment as barriers to exercise than did those with no mobility limitation.
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate what older adults with severe, moderate, or no mobility limitation consider motives for and barriers to engaging in physical exercise. Community-dwelling adults (N = 645) age 75–81 years completed a questionnaire about their motives for and barriers to physical exercise and answered interview questions on mobility limitation. Those with severely limited mobility more often reported poor health, fear and negative experiences, lack of company, and an unsuitable environment as barriers to exercise than did those with no mobility limitation. They also accentuated disease management as a motive for exercise, whereas those with no or moderate mobility limitation emphasized health promotion and positive experiences related to exercise. Information about differences in motives for and barriers to exercise among people with and without mobility limitation helps tailor support systems that support engagement in physical activity among older adults.
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TL;DR: Overall, the results showed that 63% (boys) and 45% of the variance in intentions was explained by the model, and among the boys, perceived physical competence was confirmed with their direct prediction of intentions.
Abstract: Utilising a goal perspectives framework, a study predicting physical activity intentions in 12 to 16-year-old Hungarian adolescents was conducted with two samples. Theoretical predictions established a model that was tested through path analysis. Beliefs thought to underpin goal orientations were hypothesised to predict ego orientation (general and gift beliefs) and task orientation (learning and incremental beliefs). Task orientation was hypothesised to predict intentions directly, while ego orientation was hypothesised to predict intentions indirectly through perceived competence. Results from the first sample (n=301) suggested that the model could be improved by adding paths between general beliefs and perceived competence and between task orientation and perceived competence. This modified model was shown to fit data from a second sample (n=422) very well. Multi-group analysis confirmed a good fit and so the two samples were combined. The model fitted the data well for the total sample (n=723). Overall, results showed that 20.8% of the variance in intentions was explained by the model, and that sport ability beliefs were moderately associated with task orientation but only weakly associated with ego orientation. The motivational importance of a task orientation was confirmed with its direct prediction of intentions.
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TL;DR: The dose-response relationship between depressed mood and mobility limitation suggests that both conditions may progress simultaneously and may share aetiology, at least in part.
Abstract: Background: Depressed mood may either precede mobility limitation or follow from mobility limitation. Objective: To compare mood status among people with manifest
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TL;DR: This special issue of the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports intends to reflect the diverse array of topics currently being examined under the achievement goal orientation perspective and provide practical and theoretically valuable information about the antecedents of sport motivation in different European countries.
Abstract: The benefits of physical activity for health are well documented. Even though most people are aware of these benefits, they do not necessarily exercise regularly. The serious challenge for sport psychology is to understand the mechanisms determining exercise activity during the life span. Recent research on sport motivation has increased this understanding across a broad front. Achievement goal orientation theory has been the subject of extensive research over the past few years. This special issue of the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports intends to reflect the diverse array of topics currently being examined under the achievement goal orientation perspective. Research on motivation in Europe is also flourishing. For example, eight European countries are represented among the authors of this special issue. Professor Stuart Biddle of the University of Loughborough, UK, has actively encouraged and initiated studies on motivation and emphasized the European dimension in research. The roots of this special issue are in the European collaborative research project on motivation also started by Biddle. He has very successfully created a network of researchers on motivation. Collaboration with the members of this network has been fruitful and rewarding in spite of, or because of, the differences in languages and research traditions. The results of this theme issue provide us both practically and theoretically with valuable information about the antecedents of sport motivation in different European countries. Among the authors of this special issue there are also several other leading researchers on sports psychology in the world. Professor Glyn Roberts has played a pioneering role in introducing and developing the application of a social cognitive approach to sport motivation research in the United States. His work has had an impact on sport psychology research around the world. He was pivotal in advocating an attributional analysis of sport motivation. His later work on perceptions of ability and their centrality to motivational behavior has also been important as well as the introduction of achievement goal theory. His investment in the study of motivation is epitomized in his past and current work as well as in the contributions of a number of his former students who have continued with this interest. Currently, Roberts is at the Norwegian University of Sport and Physical Education in Oslo. sport moti .va tion . issue