Curmudgeon or Golden-Ager?: Reported Exercise Participation Influences the Perception of Older Adults

Greenlees, Iain A.; Webb, Hayley; Hall, B. L.; Manley, Andrew J.

doi:10.1123/jsep.29.3.333

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“…They showed that exercisers were rated more favorably on 22 of the 24 domains studied, and concluded that, indeed, there is an "exerciser stereotype." Other researchers also obtained similar results regarding personality, physical functioning, 3 and appearance, including in older adults, 4 with exercisers being rated more favorably than nonexercisers or controls. However, these studies were based on participants' perceptions of exercisers and nonexercisers on various personality, physical functioning, and appearance dimensions, which do not inform us about the real differences between volunteer and nonvolunteer participants in an exercise study.…”

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Are Older Adults Who Volunteer to Participate in an Exercise Study Fitter and Healthier Than Nonvolunteers? The Participation Bias of the Study Population

Barreto

Ferrandez²,

Saliba-Serre³

2013

Journal of Physical Activity and Health

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Background:Participation bias in exercise studies is poorly understood among older adults. This study was aimed at looking into whether older persons who volunteer to participate in an exercise study differ from nonvolunteers.Methods:A self-reported questionnaire on physical activity and general health was mailed out to 1000 persons, aged 60 or over, who were covered by the medical insurance of the French National Education System. Among them, 535 answered it and sent it back. Two hundred and thirty-three persons (age 69.7 ±7.6, 65.7% women) said they would volunteer to participate in an exercise study and 270 (age 71.7 ±8.8, 62.2% women) did not.Results:Volunteers were younger and more educated than nonvolunteers, but they did not differ in sex. They had less physical function decline and higher volumes of physical activity than nonvolunteers. Compared with volunteers, nonvolunteers had a worse self-reported health and suffered more frequently from chronic pain. Multiple logistic regressions showed that good self-reported health, absence of chronic pain, and lower levels of physical function decline were associated with volunteering to participate in an exercise study.Conclusions:Volunteers were fitter and healthier than nonvolunteers. Therefore, caution must be taken when generalizing the results of exercise intervention studies.

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Are Older Adults Who Volunteer to Participate in an Exercise Study Fitter and Healthier Than Nonvolunteers? The Participation Bias of the Study Population

Barreto

Ferrandez²,

Saliba-Serre³

2013

Journal of Physical Activity and Health

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“…These favorable impressions are not limited to personality attributes. Martin et al. report that exercisers are generally perceived to be more physically attractive as well, and these findings have been replicated using an elderly sample (Greenlees, Webb, Hall, & Manley, 2007). There is also some evidence to suggest that overweight individuals can benefit (in the eyes of others) from exercise.…”

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Shedding the Pounds but not the Stigma: Negative Attributions as a Function of a Target's Method of Weight Loss

Mattingly

Stambush

Hill

2009

J Appl Biobehavioral Res

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Overweight individuals are perceived as possessing several negative attributes, which often leads them to attempt to lose weight. The current research examined if method of weight loss influences participants' attributions and perceptions of a formerly overweight target individual. Participants were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: weight loss via diet/exercise, weight loss via surgery, or control (no description of weight loss). Results indicated that, in general, the surgery targets were perceived more negatively than the diet/exercise targets. Moreover, diet/exercise targets were perceived as being less healthy, and, for female participants, more responsible for their weight than control targets. These data suggest that individuals who lose weight are still prone to the negative attributions associated with the overweight.

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“…Each description informed participants of the target coach's name, age, gender, coaching experience, coaching qualifications, and reputation (successful vs. unsuccessful). All descriptions were based on a template used by Greenlees, Webb, Hall, and Manley [37], with details altered to include information specific to coach reputation. The description of the successful coach was as follows: The profile of the control target (i.e., male) was similar to the experimental profiles, but there was no mention of reputation information within the written description.…”

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Athletes' Use of Reputation and Gender Information When Forming Initial Expectancies of Coaches

Manley

Greenlees

Thelwell

et al. 2010

International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching

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The study aimed to investigate the impact of coach reputation and gender on athletes' expectancies of coaching competency. Male and female athletes (n = 304) viewed a coach profile (i.e., photograph and brief description of the target coach) before being asked to rate their expectancies of the coach's competency. Gender and reputation (i.e., successful vs. unsuccessful) of the target coach were manipulated. Multivariate and follow-up univariate analyses of variance revealed that successful coaches were rated as significantly more competent than unsuccessful coaches, while the female target coach was rated as significantly less competent than the male target coach on some competency dimensions. Athletes also reported that reputation influenced their expectancies more than gender. These findings indicate that athletes' expectancies of coaching competency are influenced by the coach's reputation and gender, although this impact appears to be more pronounced for reputation. Such results have implications for the development of effective coach-athlete relationships.

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Curmudgeon or Golden-Ager?: Reported Exercise Participation Influences the Perception of Older Adults

Cited by 12 publications

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Are Older Adults Who Volunteer to Participate in an Exercise Study Fitter and Healthier Than Nonvolunteers? The Participation Bias of the Study Population

Are Older Adults Who Volunteer to Participate in an Exercise Study Fitter and Healthier Than Nonvolunteers? The Participation Bias of the Study Population

Shedding the Pounds but not the Stigma: Negative Attributions as a Function of a Target's Method of Weight Loss

Athletes' Use of Reputation and Gender Information When Forming Initial Expectancies of Coaches

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