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Exercising Control: The Longitudinal Influence of Exercise Intention Beliefs on Perceived Constraints in Older Adults with Osteoarthritis
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Exercising Control: The Longitudinal Influence of Exercise Intention Beliefs on Perceived Constraints in Older Adults with Osteoarthritis |
| Names |
Cotter, Kelly A.
(creator) Sherman, Aurora M. (creator) |
| Date Issued | 2012-11-21 (iso8601) |
| Note | This is an author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published article is copyrighted by the author(s) and published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. The published article can be found at: http://gerontologist.oxfordjournals.org/. |
| Abstract | PURPOSE OF THE STUDY: Maintaining perceived psychological control in older adulthood is beneficial for health, well-being, and adjustment to chronic illness. Theoretically, control over specific, personally meaningful domains should inform general control beliefs. Thus, the objective of the present study was to examine perceived control over the exercise domain (operationalized as exercise intention belief) for its ability to predict general control beliefs in a sample of older adults with chronic illness over one year. DESIGN AND METHODS: Longitudinal survey responses from 133 older adults with osteoarthritis (OA) were examined. RESULTS: Longitudinal hierarchical multiple regression analyses revealed that higher baseline exercise intention beliefs predicted a lower perception of constraints on control 9-12 months later, but did not predict changes in mastery beliefs. IMPLICATIONS: Results suggest that bolstering exercise intention beliefs may protect against age-related declines in psychological constraints on perceived control for older adults with osteoarthritis. |
| Genre | Article |
| Topic | control beliefs |
| Identifier | Cotter, K. A., & Sherman, A. M. (2013). Exercising Control: Exercise Intention and Perceived Constraints in Older Adults With Osteoarthritis. The Gerontologist, 53(6), 1046-1050. doi:10.1093/geront/gns143 |
