Social Support and Social Norms: Do Both Contribute to Predicting Leisure-time Exercise?

Morris A. Okun; Linda Ruehlman; Paul Karoly; Rafer Lutz; Chris Fairholme; Rachel Schaub

doi:10.5993/AJHB.27.5.2

Social Support and Social Norms: Do Both Contribute to Predicting Leisure-time Exercise?

Morris A. Okun, Linda Ruehlman, Paul Karoly, Rafer Lutz, Chris Fairholme, Rachel Schaub

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Objective: To clarify the contribution of social support and social norms to exercise behavior. Methods: A sample of 363 college students completed a questionnaire that assessed social support and social negativity from friends, descriptive and injunctive social norms related to friends, perceived behavioral control, attitude, intention, and leisure-time exercise. Results: Esteem social support was the strongest predictor of total and strenuous leisure-time exercise (P<.001), and descriptive norm was a significant (P<.01) predictor of strenuous leisure-time exercise. Conclusion: Social support and social norms contribute independently to our understanding of variation in the frequency of strenuous leisure-time exercise.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	493-507
Number of pages	15
Journal	American journal of health behavior
Volume	27
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5993/AJHB.27.5.2
State	Published - Jan 1 2003

Keywords

And social support
Exercise
Norms
Planned behavior
Social negativity

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Health(social science)
Social Psychology
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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