Article: Public Self-Consciousness, Impression Motivation, and Social Physique Anxiety: A Comparison of Correlations.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

L. Schuler, Northern Illinois University, and Lavon Williams, Purdue University

In effort to better understand exercise behaviors, researchers of sport and exercise psychology have recently applied Leary's self-presentational theory of social anxiety to the exercise environment (Brewer, Holmes, Van Raalte, & McDevitt, 1997; Crawford & Ecklund, 1994; Hart, Leary, & Rejeski, 1989). Hart and her colleagues (1989) adapted Leary's concept to the social context of exercise and labeled the anxiety one experiences in response to others' negative evaluations toward the appearance of his or her body as social physique anxiety. The exercise environment provides tremendous ...

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