Wankel (1985) Personal and situational factors affecting exercise involvement: the importance of enjoyment

getCITED

Home Search Add Content Reports Help

Edit Publication | Edit Contributors | Delete Publication | Edit References | Edit Citations

Add to Bookstack | Show Bookstack | Change Bookstack

Personal and situational factors affecting exercise involvement: the importance of enjoyment

Post a Comment

CONTRIBUTORS:

Author:

Wankel, L. M. (University of Alberta)

JOURNAL:

Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport (RQES), 56(3), 275 - 282.

YEAR:

1985

PUB TYPE:

Journal Article

SUBJECT(S):

physical-fitness; program; employee; participation; drop-out; satisfaction; motivation; social-interaction; man; comparative-study

DISCIPLINE:

No discipline assigned

HTTP:

https://secure.sportquest.com/su.cfm?articleno=173684&title=173684

LANGUAGE:

English

PUB ID:

103-341-815 (Last edited on 2002/02/27 18:44:05 US/Mountain)

SPONSOR(S):

ABSTRACT:
Interviews were conducted with continuing participants (51) and dropouts (60) from a male employee fitness program in order to investigate programmatic, personal, and social factors affecting involvement. Continuing participants scored higher than dropouts on the goals to develop recreational skills, to go out with friends, to satisfy curiosity, to release competitive drive and to develop social relationships. They also reported a greater increase in positive reactions to the program over their period of involvement in it than did the dropouts. Continuing participants rated the level of friendship within the exercise class higher and reported receiving more encouragement for involvement from their friends and work supervisor than did dropouts. Participants reported greater liking for the program activities than did the dropouts, while dropouts reported a greater dislike for the inconvenient program schedule. Investigated program, personal and social factors affecting involvement in a male employee fitness program. Collected data from interviews conducted with continuing participants (n=51) and dropouts n=60). Found that a combination of items pertaining to reactions to the program, goals for initially joining the program, and social support for involvement in the program could effectively discriminate between the participants and dropouts.

STATISTICS

Click on # to view
Citations		0
References		0
Comments		0
Quality		0/0.00
Interest		0/0.00
View(er)s		4/409

Quality
	N/A
High
	7
	6
	5
	4
	3
	2
	1
Low

Interest
	N/A
High
	7
	6
	5
	4
	3
	2
	1
Low

Prev | Next