title: Shyness and loneliness: relationship to the exercise frequency of college students.
abstract: The purpose of the current study was to estimate the relationship between exercise frequency and measures of shyness and loneliness in a sample of 882 college students. Analysis provided evidence that higher shyness and loneliness scores were associated with not exercising and infrequent exercising. Also, subjects who exercise 7 times a week scored significantly lower than the other exercise-frequency groups. Analysis of covariance, controlling for possible confounding variables, gives further support.
authors.affiliation: University of Idaho, Moscow 83844-2401, USA.
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Page
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hammermeister
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015444:Exercise / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008132:Loneliness; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory; D010806:Physical Education and Training; D012792:Shyness; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*