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      Social provisions in the exercise setting

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      Date
      2004-12-14
      Author
      Watson, Jocelyn Dawn
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      Social support has been recognized to impact positive health behaviours, including exercise participation. In the exercise domain, one conceptual framework that has been employed to examine social support is Weiss’s (1974) Model of Social Provisions. The main purpose of the present study was to utilize Weiss’s (1974) model to examine how the social provisions relate to university students’ energy expenditure while exercising with others. Specifically, this study was concerned with participants’ perceptions about the availability of social provisions, their preferences for the provisions in the exercise setting, and the congruence between social provision perceptions and preferences as they related to energy expenditure. Participants who had performed exercise with others in the past 4 weeks (N=201) completed the Modifiable Activity Questionnaire (MAQ; Kriska et al., 1990) to assess energy expenditure, as well as modified versions of the Social Provisions Scale (Cutrona & Russell, 1987) to assess social provision perceptions and preferences. Results from exploratory factor analyses revealed separate five-factor models for both the perceived provisions (i.e., attachment, reliable alliance, social integration, opportunity for nurturance, and reassurance of worth) and the preferred provisions (i.e., guidance, social integration, reliable alliance, reassurance of worth, and opportunity for nurturance). Discriminant function analyses were used to assess the unique contribution of these perceived and preferred provisions to participants’ energy expenditure. The results from the analyses indicated that none of the perceived provisions and none of the preferred provisions predicted high versus low expenditure, nor did the congruence relationship between the perceived and preferred variants of each provision predict high versus low energy expenditure. Potential explanations for the non-significant findings were highlighted with respect to study methodology. Directions for future research were also discussed.
      Degree
      Master of Science (M.Sc.)
      Department
      College of Kinesiology
      Program
      College of Kinesiology
      Supervisor
      Spink, Kevin S.
      Committee
      Kowalski, Kent; Graham, Tom; Goodwin, Donna
      Copyright Date
      December 2004
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-12152004-201524
      Subject
      social provisions
      young adults
      energy expenditure
      exercise
      social support
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