Creating parsimony at the expense of precision? Conceptual and applied issues of aggregating belief-based constructs in physical activity research

Health Education Research

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 392-405

  Rhodes, Ryan E ^a   Plotnikoff, Ronald C ^b   Spence, John C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SAMPLING; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODEL; VARIANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RESEARCH DESIGN; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EFFICACY;

EID: 3342880854     PISSN: 02681153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/her/cyg043     Document Type: Article

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