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The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between social physique anxiety and exercise behavior. A secondary focus was to determine the moderating effects of gender, age, and depression in the social physique anxiety-exercise behavior relationship. Participants included 120 males and 180 females ranging in age from 18 to 60 years (S = 25.7, SD = 9.7). Subjects completed the Social Physique Anxiety Scale (SPAS), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), and the Minnesota Heart Health Program Leisure Time Physical Activity Questionnaire (MHHP). Pearson Product-Moment Correlation analyses indicated that the magnitude of the relationship between SPAS and MHHP was most significant within males, 18-30 years old with lower (r -.54, p<.05) and higher (t= -.48, p<.05) BDI scores. Regression analysis indicated a significant negative relationship between SPAS and MEEP scores F(1, 298) = 19.02, p<0001, R^sup 2^ = 6%. Hierarchical regression analysis indicated that exercise behavior was best predicted by SPAS scores, gender, age, and depression (F(3, 296) = 12.87, p<.0001, R^sup 2^ = 14.86%, R2 inc F(3,295) = 10.54, p<.05). Therefore, it appears that social physique anxiety is negatively related to exercise behavior and that both the magnitude and form of this relationship are moderated by gender, age, and depression.

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Le but de cette etude etait la determination du rapport entre I'anxiete physique sociale et l'exercice. Le point d'tinteret secondaire etait la determination des effets du sexe, de l'age et de la depression sur le rapport entre I'anxiete physique sociale et l'exercice. Les sujets ont ete 120 hommes et 180 femmes entre l'age de 18 et 60 ans (AM=25.7 SD=9.7ans). Les sujets ont rempli le questionnaire d'anxiete physique sociale (SPAS), et l'inventaire de depression de Beck (BDI), et le questionnaire de Minnesota Heart Health Program Leisure Time Physical Activity (MHHP). Les analyses ont indique que I'ampleur du rapport entre SPAS et MHHP etait la plus importante chez les hommes entre l'age de 18 a 30 ans avec les resultats les plus bas (r-.54, p<.05) et les plus eleves (r=-.48, p<.05) resultats BDI. Analyses d'effet de forme ont trouve en effet negatif important entre les resultats de SPAS et MHHP (F(1,298)=19.02, p<.0001, R2= 6%). Des analyses supplementaire ont indique que les resultats de SPAS ont beaucoup contribue a lexplication de variation dans les...

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