ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020
Living in a Larger Body: Do Exercise Motives Influence Associations between Body Image and Exercise Avoidance Motivation?
Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Effects of different exercise types on body image in females: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
- The relationship between weight stigma and physical activity avoidance among college students: a chain mediation of body image and psychological resilience.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Lifestyle Medicine for Obesity in the Era of Highly Effective Anti-Obesity Treatment.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Mediating roles of weight stigma and physical activity avoidance in the associations between severity of gaming disorder and levels of physical activity among young adults.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2025Article
- Emotion in Motion: Weight Bias Internalization, Exercise Avoidance, and Fitness-Related Self-Conscious Emotions.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Associations between adverse childhood experiences and history of weight cycling.Obesity science & practice · 2024Article
- Managing the premenstrual body: a body mapping study of women's negotiation of premenstrual food cravings and exercise.Journal of eating disorders · 2021Article
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Abstract
The study explored reasons for exercise as possible mediators of the relationship between body appreciation and exercise avoidance motivation and between body surveillance and exercise avoidance motivation. Using a cross-sectional design, 131 women with a body mass index (BMI) of 25 or higher completed measures of body surveillance, body appreciation, reasons for exercise, and exercise avoidance motivation. Mediation analyses indicated that appearance-oriented reasons for exercise partially mediated the body surveillance-exercise avoidance motivation relationship. Health and fitness professionals, organizations, and environments should avoid reinforcing appearance-oriented reasons for exercise. Rather, empowering exercise experiences and environments should be created as they seem to benefit women regardless of reasons for exercise.
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