Why Won’t They Exercise More? Development of a Tool to Assess Motivators and Barriers to Exercise in Older Adults

Lucy Moss; Mark Moss; Lynn McInnes

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Why Won’t They Exercise More? Development of a Tool to Assess Motivators and Barriers to Exercise in Older Adults

Lucy Moss, Mark Moss, Lynn McInnes

Psychology Department

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Abstract

Objectives - The aim was to develop a quantitative tool to measure perceived motivators and barriers to exercise amongst older adults in order to facilitate the development of bespoke interventions.

Methods - Focus groups conducted with participants over the age of 65 informed the initial development of a 56-item Motivators and Barriers Questionnaire (MBQ). This was administered to a second sample of 72 sedentary and active older adults (65 to 90 years).

Results - Principle components analysis resulted in five factors defined as motivators to exercise and six factors representing barriers to exercise. A subsequent confirmatory factor analysis provided support for the model as assessed by RMSEA criteria.

Discussion - These findings suggest that the MBQ may help to identify an individual’s ‘profile’ of motivators and barriers to exercise, and so inform personalized interventions that might successfully increase activity levels in adults over 65 years of age when compared to standardised approaches.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-18
Number of pages	18
Journal	International Journal of Psychological Studies
Volume	10
Issue number	1
Early online date	4 Jan 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5539/ijps.v10n1p1
Publication status	Published - 4 Jan 2018

Keywords

Aging
Exercise
Barriers
Motivators

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