title: Concurrent self-regulatory efficacy as a mediator of the goal: exercise behaviour relationship.
abstract: Examining exercise as a single goal-directed behaviour, without acknowledging the influence of other concurrent goals, may oversimplify the self-regulation needed in daily life. Concurrent self-regulatory efficacy, confidence in one's ability to self-regulate the management of multiple goals, was explored as a potential mediator in the relationship between value of an exercise goal and future exercise behaviour. Undergraduate students were observed during a 4-week examination period where they faced greater than usual challenges to exercising regularly. Consistent with self-efficacy theory, concurrent self-regulatory efficacy was a significant partial mediator of the value of an exercise goal-exercise behaviour relationship.
authors: School of Health and Exercise Sciences, University of British Columbia, Canada. mary.jung@ubc.ca
authors: Mary E
authors: ME
authors: Jung
authors: Lawrence R
authors: LR
authors: Brawley
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D015444:Exercise / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020377:Self Efficacy; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult