![Sample our Education journals, sign in here to start your access, latest two full volumes FREE to you for 14 days]({"type":"image" , "src" : "/sda/5932/TOC-Subject-Sample-2021-Education.jpg"})
Abstract
The intent of this investigatian was to determine if self-motivation and selected physiological characteristics could be used to predict whether persons would complete a structured exercise/fitness program in a corporate setting. The investigation was a correlational design research study involving one group of subjects being measured on individual difference variables. Regression analysis was the statistical technique applied in the behavioral research study. This analysis utilized the relation between two or more quantitative variables so that one variable could be predicted from the other.
Ninety-four volunteer subjects who enrolled in a major corporate health/fitness program in New Jersey were participants in the study. Data collected from each subject included: (1) 13 physiological health variables; (2) a score on the Self-Motivation Inventory; and (3) adherence to the structured exercise program based upon attendance records in the corporate health/fitness center.
Based upon the statistical analyses, no significant positive relationship between subjects' self-motivation scores and selected physiological characteristics was found in order to predict adherence to a structured exercise program in this corporate setting. Specifically, neither self-motivation nor physiological health screening would enable this corporation to predict potential exercise dropouts in its fitness program.