The measurement of exercise motives: Factorial validity and invariance across gender of a revised Exercise Motivations Inventory

Markland, David; Ingledew, David K.

doi:10.1111/j.2044-8287.1997.tb00549.x

The measurement of exercise motives: Factorial validity and invariance across gender of a revised Exercise Motivations Inventory

Objectives . The aim of this study was to further develop and refine the Exercise Motivations Inventory (EMI), a measure of individuals' reasons for exercising. Design . Confirmatory factor analytic procedures using LISREL were employed to test the hypothesized 14‐factor structure of the revised …