Journal
SOCIAL BEHAVIOR AND PERSONALITY
Volume 47, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
SOC PERSONALITY RES INC
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.8000
Keywords
implementation intentions; goal setting; exercise self-efficacy; exercise behavior; task difficulty
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- National Social Science Fund of China [14BTY062]
- Youth Fund of the Fujian Social Science Foundation, China [FJ2018C064]
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Previous scholars have demonstrated that implementation intentions have positive effects on exercise self-efficacy and exercise behaviors; however, others have found little evidence to support these results. Task difficulty has been deemed a key factor that may contribute to these discrepant findings. Therefore, we examined the effects of implementation intentions on exercise self-efficacy and exercise behavior under different task difficulty conditions. High school students (N= 90; 48 young women and 42 young men) were randomly assigned to 3 groups to receive different kinds of intervention (i.e., control group, goal intentions group, and implementation intentions group) and then were asked to hold the Navasana yoga posture under either high-difficulty or low-difficulty conditions. The results lend support to the assumption that implementation intentions help improve exercise self-efficacy and exercise behavior among high school students. The effects of implementation intentions were robust and independent of task difficulty.
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