People don't exercise because they can't think of reasons to exercise: An examination of causal reasoning within the Transtheoretical Model

Psychology, Health and Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 409-414

  Cropley, Mark ^a   Ayers, S ^b   Nokes, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COUNSELING; EATING HABIT; EXERCISE; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SMOKING CESSATION; THEORY;

EID: 0142122304     PISSN: 13548506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13548500310001604540     Document Type: Article

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