Social-cognitive theories for predicting physical activity behaviours of employed women with and without young children

Psychology, Health and Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 129-142

  Tavares, Leonor S ^a   Plotnikoff, Ronald C ^a   Loucaides, Constantinos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Children; Chronic disease interventions; Employed women; Life stage; Physical activity; Social cognitive theories

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALBERTA; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITION; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INTENTION; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WORKPLACE;

EID: 61649128237     PISSN: 13548506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13548500802270356     Document Type: Article

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