A Pilot Study Examining Exercise Self-Efficacy as a Mediator for Walking Behavior in College-Age Women

Lynne Ornes, University of South Carolina - Beaufort
Lynda B. Ransdell, Montana State University - Bozeman

The official published version of this article can be found at www.ammonsscientific.com/AmSci/index.htm. This is a final authors' draft of the paper:

Lynne L. Ornes, Lynda B. Ransdell. (2010). A Pilot Study Examining Exercise Self-Efficacy as a Mediator for Walking Behavior in College-Age Women. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 110(3C), 1098-1104. DOI: 10.2466/pms.110.C.1098-1104

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Abstract

This pilot study examined the possible mediation of walking behavior by exercise self-efficacy in an Internet-delivered intervention in a sample of college-age women. Exercise self-efficacy did not mediate walking behavior as determined using nonparametric bootstrapping methods.