Kwan Bethany M, Hooper Ann E Caldwell, Magnan Renee E, Bryan Angela D
Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA.
Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
Self Identity. 2011;10(3):363-374. doi: 10.1080/15298868.2010.534238. Epub 2011 Jan 10.
According to self-determination theory, a tendency to view causes of a behavior as autonomous, controlled, or impersonal can influence motivation, self-regulation, and experience. We propose that causality orientations for exercise may shape self-determined regulations for exercise by leading to more positive exercise-related affect, leading to greater internalization of exercise behavior and more self-determined regulations to exercise (e.g., regulation on the basis of inherent interest and personally-held values).
Participants (N = 104) kept an online diary for four weeks documenting exercise behavior and affect experienced during exercise. Exercise causality orientations were measured at baseline and exercise regulations were measured at follow-up. Analyses were performed using multilevel modeling and path analysis.
Exercise-related affect was more positive for those with higher levels of the autonomy orientation and lower levels of the impersonal orientation. Exercise-related affect partially mediated the relationship between autonomy and impersonal orientations and self-determined regulations for exercise.
Affective responses to self-selected exercise were more positive for those who tend to perceive exercise opportunities as more autonomous, which in turn led to more self-determined regulations.
根据自我决定理论,将一种行为的原因视为自主、受控或非个人的倾向会影响动机、自我调节和体验。我们提出,运动的因果取向可能通过导致更积极的与运动相关的情感,从而塑造运动的自我决定规则,进而导致运动行为的更大内化以及更多的运动自我决定规则(例如,基于内在兴趣和个人价值观的规则)。
参与者(N = 104)连续四周记录在线日记,记录运动行为以及运动过程中体验到的情感。在基线时测量运动因果取向,在随访时测量运动规则。使用多层次建模和路径分析进行分析。
自主性取向水平较高且非个人取向水平较低的人,与运动相关的情感更为积极。与运动相关的情感部分中介了自主性和非个人取向与运动自我决定规则之间的关系。
对于那些倾向于将运动机会视为更具自主性的人来说,对自我选择的运动的情感反应更为积极,这反过来又导致了更多的自我决定规则。