STUDY 1
METHOD
Sample
Respondents were 298 attendees of a local sports centre, 68% female (M age = 29.98, SD = 9.18)
and 32% male (M age=30.38, SD=8.84). 36% were university students, 37.5% professional
workers, 16% clerical/managerial workers, 7% home carers, 2% manual workers, and 1.6% of no
stated occupation. 52.3 % of respondents reported being regular exercisers for more than six months,
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while 44% had either become regular exercisers in the past six months, or were only irregular
exercisers. The remaining 3.7% did not exercise.