Type of Publication: | Journal article |
Publication status: | Published |
Author: | Wolff, Wanja; Bieleke, Maik; Stähler, Johanna; Schüler, Julia |
Year of publication: | 2021 |
Published in: | Psychology of Sport and Exercise ; 53 (2021). - 101851. - Elsevier. - ISSN 1469-0292. - eISSN 1878-5476 |
DOI (citable link): | https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2020.101851 |
Summary: |
Physical exercise is an effective tool for improving public health, but the general population exercises too little. Drawing on recent theorizing on the combined role of boredom and self-control in guiding goal-directed behavior, we test the hypothesis that individual differences in boredom and self-control differentiate high from low exercisers. The role of boredom as a non-adaptive disposition is of particular interest, because research on boredom in sports is scarce. Here, we investigate the role of such individual differences in self-reported weekly exercise behavior (in minutes) in a sample of N = 507 participants (n = 200 female, Mage = 36.43 (±9.54)). We used the robust variant of Mahalanobis distance to detect and remove n = 51 multivariate outliers and then performed latent profile analysis to assess if boredom (boredom proneness; exercise-related boredom) and self-control (trait self-control; if-then planning) combine into identifiable latent profiles. In line with theoretical considerations, the Bayesian Information Criterion favored a solution with two latent profiles. One profile was characterized by higher-than-average exercise-related boredom and boredom proneness and lower-than-average self-control and if-then planning values. This pattern was reversed for the second profile. A one-sided Bayesian two-sample t-test supported the hypothesis that the first profile is associated with more exercise behavior than the second profile, BF =16.93. Our results foster the notion of self-control and if-then planning as adaptive dispositions. More importantly, they point to an important role of boredom in the exercise setting: exercise-related boredom and getting easily bored in general are associated with less exercise activity. This is in line with recent theorizing on boredoms' and self-controls’ function in guiding goal-directed behavior.
|
Subject (DDC): | 796 Sport |
Keywords: | Self-Control, Boredom, If-then Planning, Latent Profile Analysis, Bayesian Statistics, Exercise, Health |
Bibliography of Konstanz: | Yes |
Refereed: | Yes |
Files | Size | Format | View |
---|---|---|---|
There are no files associated with this item. |
WOLFF, Wanja, Maik BIELEKE, Johanna STÄHLER, Julia SCHÜLER, 2021. Too Bored for Sports? : Adaptive and less-adaptive latent personality profiles for exercise behavior. In: Psychology of Sport and Exercise. Elsevier. 53, 101851. ISSN 1469-0292. eISSN 1878-5476. Available under: doi: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2020.101851
@article{Wolff2021Bored-52155, title={Too Bored for Sports? : Adaptive and less-adaptive latent personality profiles for exercise behavior}, year={2021}, doi={10.1016/j.psychsport.2020.101851}, volume={53}, issn={1469-0292}, journal={Psychology of Sport and Exercise}, author={Wolff, Wanja and Bieleke, Maik and Stähler, Johanna and Schüler, Julia}, note={Article Number: 101851} }
<rdf:RDF xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:bibo="http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/" xmlns:dspace="http://digital-repositories.org/ontologies/dspace/0.1.0#" xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/" xmlns:void="http://rdfs.org/ns/void#" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#" > <rdf:Description rdf:about="https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/rdf/resource/123456789/52155"> <dc:creator>Wolff, Wanja</dc:creator> <dc:creator>Bieleke, Maik</dc:creator> <dcterms:issued>2021</dcterms:issued> <dcterms:rights rdf:resource="https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/"/> <dc:language>eng</dc:language> <void:sparqlEndpoint rdf:resource="http://localhost/fuseki/dspace/sparql"/> <foaf:homepage rdf:resource="http://localhost:8080/jspui"/> <dcterms:title>Too Bored for Sports? : Adaptive and less-adaptive latent personality profiles for exercise behavior</dcterms:title> <dc:rights>terms-of-use</dc:rights> <dc:date rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime">2020-12-17T12:04:57Z</dc:date> <dspace:isPartOfCollection rdf:resource="https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/rdf/resource/123456789/35"/> <dcterms:available rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime">2020-12-17T12:04:57Z</dcterms:available> <dc:contributor>Schüler, Julia</dc:contributor> <dcterms:abstract xml:lang="eng">Physical exercise is an effective tool for improving public health, but the general population exercises too little. Drawing on recent theorizing on the combined role of boredom and self-control in guiding goal-directed behavior, we test the hypothesis that individual differences in boredom and self-control differentiate high from low exercisers. The role of boredom as a non-adaptive disposition is of particular interest, because research on boredom in sports is scarce. Here, we investigate the role of such individual differences in self-reported weekly exercise behavior (in minutes) in a sample of N = 507 participants (n = 200 female, Mage = 36.43 (±9.54)). We used the robust variant of Mahalanobis distance to detect and remove n = 51 multivariate outliers and then performed latent profile analysis to assess if boredom (boredom proneness; exercise-related boredom) and self-control (trait self-control; if-then planning) combine into identifiable latent profiles. In line with theoretical considerations, the Bayesian Information Criterion favored a solution with two latent profiles. One profile was characterized by higher-than-average exercise-related boredom and boredom proneness and lower-than-average self-control and if-then planning values. This pattern was reversed for the second profile. A one-sided Bayesian two-sample t-test supported the hypothesis that the first profile is associated with more exercise behavior than the second profile, BF =16.93. Our results foster the notion of self-control and if-then planning as adaptive dispositions. More importantly, they point to an important role of boredom in the exercise setting: exercise-related boredom and getting easily bored in general are associated with less exercise activity. This is in line with recent theorizing on boredoms' and self-controls’ function in guiding goal-directed behavior.</dcterms:abstract> <dc:contributor>Bieleke, Maik</dc:contributor> <dc:contributor>Stähler, Johanna</dc:contributor> <dcterms:isPartOf rdf:resource="https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/rdf/resource/123456789/35"/> <dc:creator>Schüler, Julia</dc:creator> <dc:contributor>Wolff, Wanja</dc:contributor> <dc:creator>Stähler, Johanna</dc:creator> <bibo:uri rdf:resource="https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/handle/123456789/52155"/> </rdf:Description> </rdf:RDF>