1. Effects of Biggest Loser Exercise Depictions on Exercise-Related Attitudes.
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Berry, Tanya R., Mcleod, Nicole C., Pankratow, Melanie, and Walker, Jessica
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EXERCISE & psychology ,ANALYSIS of covariance ,ANALYSIS of variance ,COLLEGE students ,PSYCHOLOGICAL tests ,QUESTIONNAIRES ,RESEARCH funding ,TELEVISION ,WEIGHT loss ,TASK performance ,REPEATED measures design ,CASE-control method ,PATIENTS' attitudes ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics - Abstract
Objectives: To examine whether participants who watched an exercise-related segment of The Biggest Loser television program would have different explicit and implicit affective exercise-related attitudes than those of control participants. Methods: University students (N=138) watched a clip of The Biggest Loser or American Idol, then completed a Go/No-go Association Task, a thought-listing task, and questionnaires measuring explicit attitudes, activity level, and mood. Results: Participants who watched The Biggest Loser had significantly lower explicit, but not implicit, attitudes towards exercise than did control participants. Conclusions: There is a need to examine the influence of popular media depictions of exercise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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