title: Interpersonal deficits and time spent in exercise or active recreation.
abstract: This study was designed to investigate the hypothesis that people with interpersonal deficits would spend less time in exercise or active recreation. Participants completed a questionnaire about the time spent per week in exercise or active recreation as well as in other activities such as reading and watching television. They also completed a questionnaire designed to measure both interpersonal and cognitive-perceptual deficits. Interpersonal deficits measured were social anxiety, constricted affect, and lack of close friends. Cognitive-perceptual deficits measured were perceptual aberration, magical ideation, and ideas of reference. Analysis showed that interpersonal deficits were related to reduced time spent in exercise or active recreation. Cognitive-perceptual deficits were not associated with time spent in exercise or active recreation.
authors.affiliation: California State University, Northridge, USA.
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Pinto
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Sarkin
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D015444:Exercise / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011998:Recreation; D012917:Social Adjustment; D013997:Time Factors