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Self‐Presentation in Exercise Contexts: Differences Between High and Low Frequency Exercisers
Author(s) -
Gammage Klmberley L.,
Hall Craig R.,
Ginis Kathleen A. Martin
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2004.tb02791.x
Subject(s) - psychology , expectancy theory , presentational and representational acting , anxiety , impression management , social anxiety , self efficacy , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , social psychology , philosophy , psychiatry , aesthetics
The present study investigated the relationship between cognitive manifestations of self‐presentation (social physique anxiety, self‐presentational efficacy, impression motivation, and exercise imagery) and exercise behavior in 235 female exercisers. Each participant completed the Social Physique Anxiety Scale, a measure of self‐presentational efficacy, the impression motivation subscale of the Self‐Presentation in Exercise Questionnaire, and the Exercise Imagery Questionnaire. The results of a MANCOVA indicated high‐frequency exercisers reported higher levels of efficacy expectancy, outcome value, and exercise imagery than did low‐frequency exercisers. Semi‐partial correlations showed efficacy expectancy, outcome expectancy, and appearance imagery each accounted for significant variance in social physique anxiety, independent of other predictors. Self‐presentational efficacy expectancy appears to be a potent variable in both exercise behavior and social physique anxiety.