Social facilitation in virtual reality-enhanced exercise: Competitiveness moderates exercise effort of older adults

Clinical Interventions in Aging

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 275-280

  Anderson Hanley, Cay ^a,b   Snyder, Amanda L ^a   Nimon, Joseph P ^a   Arciero, Paul J ^a,b  

^a UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

^b SKIDMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Competitiveness; Exercise; Exercise intensity; Social facilitation; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BICYCLE; COMPETITION; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELDERLY CARE; EXERCISE; EXERCISE INTENSITY; FEMALE; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; VIRTUAL REALITY ENHANCED EXERCISE;

EID: 80755126929     PISSN: 11769092     EISSN: 11781998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/cia.s25337     Document Type: Article

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