title: Social cognitive theory variables mediation of moderate exercise.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To identify the degree to which the social cognitive theory constructs targeted by the Planning to Be Active Program (PBA) were mediators of moderate-intensity exercise.
  
  
  METHODS
  High school students in treatment and comparison groups received activity-based physical education. The treatment group also received PBA, which develops self-regulation skills to promote leisure-time exercise.
  
  
  RESULTS
  PBA increased self-regulation scores, social situation scores, and moderate-intensity exercise. Self-regulation and social situation mediated moderate-intensity exercise at posttest.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  As mediators, self-regulation and social situation help explain how PBA produces increases in moderate-intensity exercise.
authors: Department of Physical Education, Denison University, Granville, OH 43023, USA. Hortzb@Denison.edu
authors: Brian
authors: B
authors: Hortz
authors: R Lingyak
authors: RL
authors: Petosa
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003071:Cognition; D015444:Exercise / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009820:Ohio; D012424:Rural Population; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires