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Article: Modeling social and psychological determinants of exercise behaviors via structural equation systems.
- Article from:
- Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport
- Article date:
- March 1, 1993
- Author:
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Structural equation modeling has in recent years become a useful methodology for the systematic development and testing of complex theories representing social and behavioral processes. Although the basic theory of structural equation modeling is an extension of single-equation regression concepts, the matrix language that is typically used in this field is complicated and confusing. As a result, this statistical method has been largely neglected in investigations of the social and psychological processes involved in exercise and physical activity. In addition, most reported applications of latent variable structural equation methodology (e.g., McAuley, Duncan, & Tammen, ...