Exercise self-schemata: Cognitive and behavioral correlates
This paper extends the exercise self-schema work from the author's earlier study, which had shown that people who consider being an exerciser part of who they are exercise more, plan more and keep more tricks for the days they do not feel like it. Where the earlier paper established the behavioural differences, this one takes the cognitive side seriously, examining how the self-schema operates as a mental structure: what a person with it notices, how they process information about exercise and how that connects to what they actually do. The distinction matters for intervention, because a behaviour that follows from a self-concept is not changed by the same levers as a behaviour that follows from intentions. It is the bridge between the original demonstration and the later meta-analytic work on identity and physical activity. Written without an abstract, from the title and the same author's earlier study.
This paper extends the exercise self-schema work from the author's earlier study, which had shown that people who consider being an exerciser part of who they are exercise more, plan more and keep more tricks for the days they do not feel like it. Where the earlier paper established the behavioural differences, this one takes the cognitive side seriously, examining how the self-schema operates as a mental structure: what a person with it notices, how they process information about exercise and how that connects to what they actually do. The distinction matters for intervention, because a behaviour that follows from a self-concept is not changed by the same levers as a behaviour that follows from intentions. It is the bridge between the original demonstration and the later meta-analytic work on identity and physical activity. Written without an abstract, from the title and the same author's earlier study.
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Kendzierski, D. (1990). "Exercise self-schemata: cognitive and behavioral correlates." Health Psychology, 9(1), 69-82. PMID 2323330.
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- Somebody Notices When You Are Missing, Why We Move
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https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-6133.9.1.69
DOI: 10.1037/0278-6133.9.1.69