Social Support and Social Norms: Do Both Contribute to Predicting Leisure-time Exercise?
Keywords: exercise; norms; planned behavior; social negativity; social support
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: 1: Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. 2: Consultants in Behavioral Research, Tempe, AZ. 3: Department of Health, Human Performance, and Recreation, Baylor University, Waco, TX.
Publication date: 01 September 2003
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