Event Title
Poster: Using Exercise as Punishment: Examination and Prediction
Location
ECC Dining Hall
Start Time
14-5-2009 12:20 PM
End Time
14-5-2009 1:30 PM
Description
Although the use of exercise as punishment appears to be pervasive among coaches, teachers, and fitness professionals, this phenomenon has not been systematically investigated. Many people are familiar with coaches requiring losing teams to run laps or teachers requiring misbehaving students to do calisthenics. People, however, are not as familiar with consequences of exercise as punishment.
Our study examined the attitudes, intentions, beliefs, and behaviors of physical education majors regarding the use of exercise as punishment. Surveys based on the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) were completed by 345 students. More than 90% intend to work as coaches, physical education teachers, or in fitness facilities. More than 43% have used exercise as punishment, as have 91% of their coaches and 43% of their teachers. The constructs of the TRA explained nearly 70% of the variance in the participants’ intentions to use exercise as punishment, with attitudes making the greatest contribution.
Poster: Using Exercise as Punishment: Examination and Prediction
ECC Dining Hall
Although the use of exercise as punishment appears to be pervasive among coaches, teachers, and fitness professionals, this phenomenon has not been systematically investigated. Many people are familiar with coaches requiring losing teams to run laps or teachers requiring misbehaving students to do calisthenics. People, however, are not as familiar with consequences of exercise as punishment.
Our study examined the attitudes, intentions, beliefs, and behaviors of physical education majors regarding the use of exercise as punishment. Surveys based on the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) were completed by 345 students. More than 90% intend to work as coaches, physical education teachers, or in fitness facilities. More than 43% have used exercise as punishment, as have 91% of their coaches and 43% of their teachers. The constructs of the TRA explained nearly 70% of the variance in the participants’ intentions to use exercise as punishment, with attitudes making the greatest contribution.