Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of the study is to identify structural relationship among exercise imagery, physicalactivity, and health-related quality of life of adults. Methods: Five hundred questionnaires were initiallydistributed to college students, company employees and sports center members(male: 273, female: 194,Mage=39.21). Among them, total 467 were finally used in this study. Exercise imagery scale, weeklyleisure-time exercise questionnaire and short-form health survey-36 were revised into Korean and applied inthe study. Frequency analysis, correlation analysis, and structural equation modeling were carried out to testthe possible relationship among exercise imagery, physical activity, and health-related quality of life. Allanalyses were conducted by SPSS 18.0 and AMOS 18. Results: Results indicated that there were positiverelationship among exercise imagery, physical activity, and health-related quality of life of adults. In specific,exercise imagery and physical activity had significant positive relationship with vitality which was sub-factorof psychological health-related quality of life. Additionally, exercise imagery was significant factor tophysical health-related quality and physical activity. The finding ultimately revealed that a hypothesizedresearch model showed the significant model fit after modification. But it was showed the difference withsex. Conclusion: This study suggests that cognitive intervention strategies aimed at exercise imagery couldbe significant to promote physical activity and its related health-related quality of life. As it was existed thedifference with sex, there will be necessary another studies which is concerned about various variables
| Translated title of the contribution | Relationship among Exercise Imagery, Physical Activity, and Health-related Quality of Life |
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| Original language | Korean |
| Pages (from-to) | 15-28 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | 한국스포츠심리학회지 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| State | Published - Aug 2014 |