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Here, personality and motivational factors that can promote exercise frequency were explored. Methods: Participants [N=108, females (n=64), males (n=44); average age, height, and weight of 19.39 ± 4.49 yrs, 169.29 ± 17.34 cm, and 67.82 ± 15.44 kg, respectively] completed a battery of online questionnaires assessing exercise behavior, personality, and exercise motivation. Results: Exercise frequency, a proxy measure of exercise adherence, was shown to be moderately correlated with both mastery and enjoyment components of the intrinsic motivation factor, with weaker relationships seen extrinsic motives (comprising psychological condition, physical condition, social motives). Personality factors were weakly related to exercise frequency. Conscientiousness was moderately correlated (r= .328, p<.01), whereas extraversion, emotional stability, agreeableness and openness were not significantly related to exercise frequency. Intrinsic motivation (mastery, enjoyment) was moderately correlated with extraversion (rs = .366 & .316 respectively, ps< .01) and emotional stability (rs= .235 & .229 respectively, ps< .05). Agreeableness was associated with enjoyment (r= .217, p< .05) but not mastery (r= .122, p> .05), whereas openness was related to mastery (r= .216, p< .05) but not enjoyment component (r(106) = .167, p > .05). Conscientiousness was unrelated to either mastery or enjoyment. Conclusions: The findings highlight how motivational regulation can help to better understand individual personalities and could potentially form a useful foundation for developing physical activity interventions. Results add to the literature suggesting that motivation, whether the origin is intrinsic or extrinsic to the individual, can help to characterize fidelity to physical activity by considering specific personality characteristics.","Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2018-03-13 without embargo terms","The student, Raja Amjod, accepted the attached license on 2017-12-11 at 17:37.","The student, Raja Amjod, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2017-12-11 at 17:53.","This Thesis was approved for publication on 2017-12-12 at 16:31.","DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #11947 on 2018-03-13 at 10:12:17"]},{"key":"dc:format","label":"Dc Format","values":["application/pdf"]},{"key":"dc:title","label":"Title","values":["Which type of motivation is capable of driving achievement behaviors such as exercise in different personalities?"]}]}],"canonical_facts":{"dc:contributor":["Petruzzello, Steven J."],"dc:creator":["Amjod, Raja"],"dc:date":["2018-03-13T15:49:14Z","2017-12-12","2017-12"],"dc:description":["Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-13T15:49:14Z (GMT). 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Here, personality and motivational factors that can promote exercise frequency were explored. Methods: Participants [N=108, females (n=64), males (n=44); average age, height, and weight of 19.39 ± 4.49 yrs, 169.29 ± 17.34 cm, and 67.82 ± 15.44 kg, respectively] completed a battery of online questionnaires assessing exercise behavior, personality, and exercise motivation. Results: Exercise frequency, a proxy measure of exercise adherence, was shown to be moderately correlated with both mastery and enjoyment components of the intrinsic motivation factor, with weaker relationships seen extrinsic motives (comprising psychological condition, physical condition, social motives). Personality factors were weakly related to exercise frequency. Conscientiousness was moderately correlated (r= .328, p<.01), whereas extraversion, emotional stability, agreeableness and openness were not significantly related to exercise frequency. Intrinsic motivation (mastery, enjoyment) was moderately correlated with extraversion (rs = .366 & .316 respectively, ps< .01) and emotional stability (rs= .235 & .229 respectively, ps< .05). Agreeableness was associated with enjoyment (r= .217, p< .05) but not mastery (r= .122, p> .05), whereas openness was related to mastery (r= .216, p< .05) but not enjoyment component (r(106) = .167, p > .05). Conscientiousness was unrelated to either mastery or enjoyment. Conclusions: The findings highlight how motivational regulation can help to better understand individual personalities and could potentially form a useful foundation for developing physical activity interventions. Results add to the literature suggesting that motivation, whether the origin is intrinsic or extrinsic to the individual, can help to characterize fidelity to physical activity by considering specific personality characteristics.","Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. 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