TY - JOUR T1 - Influence of age, sex, and race on college students' exercise motivation of physical activity. AU - Egli,Trevor, AU - Bland,Helen W, AU - Melton,Bridget F, AU - Czech,Daniel R, PY - 2011/4/19/entrez PY - 2011/4/19/pubmed PY - 2011/8/24/medline SP - 399 EP - 406 JF - Journal of American college health : J of ACH JO - J Am Coll Health VL - 59 IS - 5 N2 - OBJECTIVE: The authors examined differences in exercise motivation between age, sex, and race for college students. PARTICIPANTS: Students from 156 sections of physical activity classes at a midsize university were recruited (n = 2,199; 1,081 men, 1,118 women) in 2005-2006 and volunteered to complete the Exercise Motivation Inventory. METHODS: Quantitative, cross-sectional descriptive research design was employed. RESULTS: Significant differences were found in 3 of 14 exercise motivational subscales by age (affiliation, health pressures, and ill health avoidance) (p < .05). Males were motivated by intrinsic factors (strength, competition, and challenge) (p < .05) and females by extrinsic factors (ie, weight management and appearance) (p < .05); only 2 subscales proved not to be significant by sex. Race differences provided 8 significant differences by exercise motivations (p < .05). CONCLUSIONS: Significant differences for exercise motivations in college-aged population by demographics were documented. Understanding these differences is important for college health professionals for programming strategies and promoting physical activity. SN - 1940-3208 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/21500059/Influence_of_age_sex_and_race_on_college_students'_exercise_motivation_of_physical_activity_ L2 - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07448481.2010.513074 DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -