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Muscle-Strengthening Exercise and Sleep Among a Sample of College Aged Students

McGaughey, Anthony, Jr
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0513-0755
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1731069118545013

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2024, Doctor of Philosophy, Miami University, Educational Leadership.
Physical activity, such as muscle-strengthening, and sleep are important health behaviors. Yet many Americans do not meet recommendations for either. Additional research is needed to understand the relationship between muscle-strengthening and sleep. While research has examined the intention behavior gap for sleep behaviors and muscle-strengthening behaviors independently, rarely are they examined together. The Reasoned Action Approach (RAA) is applied more often to physical activity than to muscle-strengthening, and additional research is needed to examine the intention-behavior gap for muscle-strengthening specifically. This study uses The RAA as its theoretical foundation to explore the relationship between muscle-strengthening exercise and sleep in a sample of college aged students. Three hundred fifty-three students participated in this study. A logistic regression analysis was performed to investigate the effects of muscle-strengthening intention (independent variable: 3 dimensions, collapsed into a single metric) on the likelihood of meeting muscle-strengthening guidelines (7 muscle groups twice weekly/ binary response variable). As theorized in the RAA, Perceived Behavioral Control (PBC) for muscle-strengthening will be considered as a moderator variable in the analysis. A chi-square was used to compare meeting muscle-strengthening guidelines and meeting sleep recommendations. This study found in model 1 that intentions accounts for 18.7% of the variance of meeting muscle-strengthening guidelines. In model 2, neither gender (p = .470), PBC (p = .687), nor the interaction effect of PBC x intentions (p = .911) were statistically significant. Thus, no moderation effects were observed. Additionally, this study found no significant differences in meeting muscle-strengthening guidelines between people who meet sleep recommendations and people who do not meet sleep recommendations. This research expands the literature on the RAA and muscle-strengthening by examining the moderating effect of PBC on intentions in order to help health promotion practitioners develop more effective and targeted interventions.
Sherrill Sellers (Advisor)
William Boone (Committee Member)
Darrell Davis (Committee Member)
Sherrill Sellers (Advisor)
Helaine Alessio (Committee Member)
77 p.
Health; Health Education; Public Health; Public Health Education
Muscle-Strengthening, Sleep, physical activity, PA, The Reasoned Action Approach, Reasoned Action Approach, RAA, College aged student, student, exercise, physical activity guidelines, sleep recommendations, muscle-strengthening guidelines

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  • McGaughey, Jr, A. (2024). Muscle-Strengthening Exercise and Sleep Among a Sample of College Aged Students [Doctoral dissertation, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1731069118545013

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • McGaughey, Jr, Anthony. Muscle-Strengthening Exercise and Sleep Among a Sample of College Aged Students. 2024. Miami University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1731069118545013.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • McGaughey, Jr, Anthony. "Muscle-Strengthening Exercise and Sleep Among a Sample of College Aged Students." Doctoral dissertation, Miami University, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1731069118545013

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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