STAGES OF CHANGE FOR EXERCISE BEHAVIOR AND SELF-EFFICACY FOR EXERCISE AMONG MIDDLE-AGED ADULTS

• Published in: Nihon Koshu Eisei Zasshi(JAPANESE JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH) Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 208 - 215
• Main Author: OKA, Koichiro
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Japanese
• Published: Japan Japanese Society of Public Health 01.03.2003
• Subjects: Exercise - psychology; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; middle-aged adults; Self Efficacy; self-efficacy for exercise; stages of change for exercise behavior; transtheoretical model

The transtheoretical model of behavior change (TTM) has been used to account for how people change their health behavior. It was originally developed to explain or predict change in unhealthy addictive behavior (e.g., smoking), but recently the use of the TTM within the physical activity and exercis...