A delivery model for overcoming psycho-behavioral barriers to exercise

作者：Brinthaupt Thomas M^*; Kang Minsoo; Anshel Mark H

来源：Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 2010, 11(4): 259-266.

DOI：10.1016/j.psychsport.2010.03.003

• Promotion &amp
• maintenance of health &amp
• wellness
• Health psychology &amp
• medicine
• Exercise barriers
• Disconnected Values Model
• Wellness intervention

Objective: To examine the effects of a values-based wellness intervention on physical fitness and perceived barriers to exercise.
Design: Study was a one-group pre-test-post-test design. Participants were 58 university faculty and staff who volunteered to participate in a 10-week campus wellness program, based on the Disconnected Values Model (DVM), for improving exercise habits.
Method: Participants completed pre- and post-intervention measures of fitness (percent body fat, cardiovascular fitness, and upper- and lower-body muscular strength), disconnected values (job, health, happiness, family, work/life balance), and a variety of perceived internal and external barriers to exercise.
Results: Participants showed significantly improved fitness scores at post-test (p < .001). In addition, the values of health and happiness, which were misaligned prior to the program intervention, were significantly reduced at post-test (p < .05). Finally, several perceived exercise barriers, as well as the total number of barriers endorsed, showed significant decreases at post-test (p < .05).
Conclusion: A values-based intervention increased participants' exercise behaviors and reduced their perceived exercise barriers. Implications of the results supporting the DVM are presented.

• 出版日期2010-7