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  • Health Psychology

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  • Environmental factors are known barriers to adolescent exercise.
  • Cognitive factors, such as future thinking and executive function, are less understood in relation to exercise intent.
  • Existing models of exercise intent may be incomplete by not incorporating executive function capacity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the mediating role of executive function capacity in the relationship between future thinking and exercise intent in adolescents.
  • To explore cognitive predictors of exercise intent beyond future thinking.

Main Methods:

  • 101 adolescents (aged 11-17) from a summer enrichment program participated.
  • Self-report measures included the Consideration of Future Consequences Scale (CFCS), Intent to Exercise, and the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function, Second Edition (BRIEF-2).
  • Mediation models were analyzed controlling for age and socioeconomic status.

Main Results:

  • Executive function capacity significantly mediated the relationship between future thinking and exercise intent.
  • This mediation effect remained significant after controlling for covariates like age and socioeconomic status.

Conclusions:

  • Executive function capacity is an important cognitive factor linking future thinking to exercise intent in adolescents.
  • Interventions targeting executive function capacity directly could be a valuable strategy to increase exercise intent and actual exercise in adolescents.