Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0344963
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Health-related physical activity: Psychological determinants, consequences, and experimental interventions. Increasingly sedentary lifestyles and physical inactivity constitute a worldwide health problem. Despite well-known benefits of physical activity, preventive-medicine interventions have had limited success. Instead, we propose an innovative psychological approach, emphasising quality of subjective experience (flow), motivation, physical self-concept, and the transtheoretical model of behavioural change. We propose psychological determinants of physical activity and a new experimental intervention to significantly enhance health-related physical activity. The research breaks new theoretical ground, extending and integrating different theoretical perspectives, offering a synergy between qualitative and quantitative research traditions, and providing practical benefits to mental and physical health and to quality of life.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2003
End Date: 06-2006
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $120,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Sport And Exercise Psychology | Educational Psychology | Psychology | Health, Clinical And Counselling Psychology |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Education and training not elsewhere classified | Recreation | Behaviour and health
