Year: 2005
Type: dissertation
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to test a conceptual model of physical activity in \nTaiwanese men and women with anxiety. The physical activity in persons with anxiety \n(PAPA) model was modified from Pender’s revised health promotion model (Pender, \nMurdaugh & Parsons, 2002) and Spielberger’s cross-sectional model of anxiety \n(Spielberger, 1966). Personal factors (gender, education, income adequacy, and trait \nanxiety) were hypothesized as having direct and indirect influences on physical activity. \nCognition-emotion variables (state anxiety, perceived life stress events, perceived \nbenefits of activity, perceived barriers to activity, perceived self-efficacy for activity, \nperceived family members’ support for activity and perceived friends’ support for \nactivity) were hypothesized to directly influence on physical activity. \nA non-probability sample of 252 participants was selected from five study sites. \nData from 239 participants were analyzed using the EQS 5.7b program. The 89 men \nix \nand 150 women ranged from 20 to 60 years of age and were receiving outpatients care for \nanxiety. The initial hypothesized model was modified and the final version of the \nPAPA model provided a good fit to the data, with: a Comparative Fit Index of 1.00, a \nRoot-Mean-Square Error of Approximation of .01, and a Chi-Square value of 24.79, with \n24 degrees of freedom (p= .417). \nThe variables in the revised PAPA model explained 23.3% of the variance in \nphysical activity. Three variables directly influenced physical activity: perceived life \nstress events, perceived benefits of activity and perceived self-efficacy for activity. The \nvariables that indirectly influenced physical activity were gender, income adequacy, trait \nanxiety, state anxiety, perceived benefits of activity, perceived barriers to activity, and \nperceived friends’ support for activity. Education and perceived family members’ \nsupport for activity did not have either a significant direct or indirect influence on \nphysical activity.
Author: Wei‐Fen Ma
Language: English
Topic: Physical Activity and Health
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1915932204