1. Associations among physical activity tracking, physical activity motivation and level of physical activity in young adults.
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O'Loughlin, Erin K, Sabiston, Catherine M, deJonge, Melissa L, Lucibello, Kristen M, and O'Loughlin, Jennifer L
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EXERCISE tolerance , *MOTIVATION (Psychology) , *WEARABLE technology , *PHYSICAL activity , *WALKING , *QUESTIONNAIRES , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *JUDGMENT sampling , *DATA analysis software - Abstract
Whether physical activity (PA) tracking devices are associated with PA motivation in young adults is largely unknown. We compared total PA minutes per week, total minutes walking/week, meeting moderate-to vigorous PA guidelines, and past-year activity tracking across motivation cluster profiles among 799 young adults. Participants with "self-determined" profiles reported the highest total PA minutes/week followed by participants with "low intrinsic," "controlled self-determined," and "high external" profiles. A behavior regulation profile X activity tracking frequency interaction was not significant. Behavior regulation profiles may need to be considered in PA interventions using activity trackers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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