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100 1 Wieseke, Ann W
245 12 A test of Bandura's social cognitive theory: Predicting
exercise behavior
300 262 p
500 Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-
02, Section: B, page: 0748
500 Chairperson: Jan Beckstrand
502 Thesis (D.N.S.)--Indiana University School of Nursing,
1993
520 Engaging in regular exercise is a factor in illness
prevention, illness management, and health promotion. The
purpose of this study was to examine whether efficacy
expectations, outcome expectations, and emotional arousal,
concepts from the Social Cognitive Theory, significantly
predicted exercise behavior of nurses. Exercise was
defined by the parameters of frequency, duration, and
intensity
520 The sample consisted of 215 registered nurses who were
currently exercising and employed at seven area
institutions. Demographic information was also gathered
from a group of registered nurses (n = 192) employed at
the same institutions who did not currently exercise to
allow for comparison with the exercising respondents on
extraneous variables
520 The Modified Self-Care Behavior Instrument was explored
using factor analysis with both alpha and principal
components extractions. Two distinct factors, that could
be identified as efficacy expectations and outcome
expectations, accounted for 24.7% and 7.1%, respectively,
of the variance in the data. Internal consistency
reliabilities, examined using Cronbach's alpha, were
estimated as.92 and.75 for the efficacy expectations and
the outcome expectations scales, respectively
520 Intervening variables of age, weight, height, and gender
did not appear to influence the independent or dependent
variables. Significant findings based on groups defined by
employing institution were found and the meaning of the
findings needs to be investigated further
520 Standard multiple regression analyses indicated that
efficacy expectations predicted a small amount of variance
in the single parameters of exercise, frequency, duration,
and intensity, but were a stronger predictor of a combined
indicator of exercise. Efficacy expectations predicted
twelve percent of the variance in the combined exercise
behavior score
520 This study provided empirical support for efficacy
expectations predicting exercise activity as proposed in
Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory. The lack of significant
findings related to outcome expectations may reflect the
multidimensional nature of the concept or the lack of
outcome specificity in the instrument items
590 School code: 0815
650 4 Psychology, Social
650 4 Health Sciences, Nursing
650 4 Health Sciences, Public Health
690 0451
690 0569
690 0573
710 2 Indiana University School of Nursing
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