Home-Based Resistance Training: Predictors of Participation and Adherence.

Jette, Alan M.; Rooks, Dan; Lachman, Margie; Lin, Ting H.; Levenson, Claudia; Heislein, Diane; Giorgetti, Marie M.; Harris, B. A.

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ERIC Number: EJ581096

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1998

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Home-Based Resistance Training: Predictors of Participation and Adherence.

Jette, Alan M.; Rooks, Dan; Lachman, Margie; Lin, Ting H.; Levenson, Claudia; Heislein, Diane; Giorgetti, Marie M.; Harris, B. A.

Gerontologist, v38 n4 p412-21 Aug 1998

Identifies factors associated with exercise participation and adherence in a sample of sedentary, functionally limited, community-dwelling adults ages 60 to 94 who participated in a home-based resistance training program (N=102). Results show that psychological factors were most important to adherence to the home-based program. (Author/MKA)

Descriptors: Attitudes, Exercise, Health, Home Instruction, Locus of Control, Older Adults, Predictor Variables, Psychological Patterns, Resistance (Psychology)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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