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Commitment to physical activity and anxiety about physique among college women
M E Finkenberg1, J M DiNucci, S L McCune
1Department of Kinesiology and Health Science, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches 75962-3015, USA.
Perceptual and Motor Skills
|March 3, 1999
Abstract:
This study involved a comparison of scores on the Commitment to Physical Activity Scale and the Social Physique Anxiety Scale by 258 women athletes, kinesiology majors, and a control group. Mean commitment to physical activity of the control group was significantly lower than the means of the other groups; the mean on anxiety about social physique was significantly higher.