Relationships between dimensions of perfectionism and exercise behavior among college students

Autor:	Scott J. Seipel, Mark H. Anshel
Rok vydání:	2006
Předmět:	education.field_of_study Social Psychology Population Strength exercise Perfectionism (psychology) medicine.disease_cause Factor structure Confirmatory factor analysis Regimen medicine Aerobic exercise Exercise behavior education Psychology Applied Psychology Clinical psychology
Zdroj:	International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology. 4:25-42
ISSN:	1557-251X 1612-197X
DOI:	10.1080/1612197x.2006.9671782
Popis:	The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which dimensions of perfectionism were characteristic of college age adults (N=186 undergraduate college students from a university in the southeastern U.S.) who engaged in aerobic and strength exercise. Participants completed one inventory, the Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (MPS; Frost et al., 1990), and additional questions regarding their maintenance of an exercise regimen. A confirmatory factor analysis was performed to determine the adequacy of the factor structure of the MPS model compared to factor structures proposed by Stober (1998), Purdon, Antony, and Swinson (1999) and Cox, Enns, and Clara (2002). Results of the analyses indicate that the Brief MPS, a refined perfectionism scale offered by Cox et al. (2002) utilizing only 22 of the original 35 items on the MPS, provided the best overall structural fit to this population. Moreover, the maintenance of a regular exercise regimen was found to have a significant but small positi...
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