The DOI matches its Crossref record; 3 of the 3 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
College Students' Motivation for Physical Activity: Differentiating Men's and Women's Motives for Sport Participation and Exercise
Abstract
Despite the many clear benefits of an active lifestyle, lack of physical activity is a significant health problem in the college population. A key issue in physical activity research is developing an understanding of motivation. Although physical activity takes many forms, most research designed to enhance motivation for and adherence to physical activity focuses on exercise behavior and ignores sport participation. In this study, the authors compare motivations for sport participation versus exercise among college students. Results indicate that participants were more likely to report intrinsic motives, such as enjoyment and challenge, for engaging in sport, whereas motivations for exercise were more extrinsic and focused on appearance and weight and stress management. The findings suggest that motives for sport participation are more desirable than those for exercise and may facilitate improved adherence to physical activity recommendations.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Pollock, M. L., Gaesser, G. A., Butcher, J. D., Despr??s, J.-P., Dishman, R. K., Franklin, B. A., & Garber, C. E. (1998) · Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise · doi:10.1097/00005768-199806000-00032 · Cited by 3,051
Relation Between Dieting and Weight Change Among Preadolescents and Adolescents
Field, A. E., Austin, S. B., Taylor, C. B., Malspeis, S., Rosner, B., Rockett, H. R., Gillman, M. W., & Colditz, G. A. (2003) · Pediatrics · doi:10.1542/peds.112.4.900 · Cited by 631
Markland, D., & Ingledew, D. K. (1997) · British Journal of Health Psychology · doi:10.1111/j.2044-8287.1997.tb00549.x · Cited by 431
Research works printed but not linked: 14
- Douglas KA, Collins JL, Warren C, et al. Results from the 1995 National College Risk Behavior Survey. J Am Coll Health. 1997;46:55-66.
- Grunbaum JA, Kann L, Kinchen S, et al. Youth risk behavior surveillance-United States, 2001. MMWR. 2002;51:1-64.
- Calfas KJ, Sallis JF, Lovato CY, Campbell J. Physical activity and its determinants before and after college graduation. Med Exerc Nutr Health. 1994;3:323-334.
- Dishman RK, Buckworth J. Increasing physical activity: a quantitative synthesis. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 1996;28:706-719.
- American College of Sports Medicine. ACSM's Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription. 6th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams &Wilkins; 2000.
- Frederick CM, Ryan RM. Differences in motivation for sport and exercise and their relations with participation and mental health. J Sport Behav. 1993;16:125-145.
- Ryan RM, Frederick CM, Lepes D, Rubio N, Sheldon KM. Intrinsic motivation and exercise adherence. Int J Sport Psychol. 1997;28:335-354.
- Biddle S. Exercise motivation across the lifespan. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics. In Biddle, S. ed., European Perspectives on Exercise and Sport Psychology; 1995:3-25.
- Lumpkin A. Physical Education and Sport: A Contemporary Introduction. 4th ed. Boston, Mass: McGraw-Hill; 1998.
- Neiman D. Exercise Testing and Prescription: A Health-Related Approach. 5th ed. New York, NY: McGraw Hill; 2003.
- Hill AJ, Draper E, Stack J. A weight on children's minds: body shape dissatisfactions at 9-years old. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 1994;18:383-389.
- Ashford B, Biddle SJH, Goudas M. Participation in community sports centers: motives and predictors of enjoyment. J Sports Sci. 1993;11:249-256.
- Kilpatrick M, Bartholomew JB, Riemer HL. The measurement of goal orientations in exercise. J Sport Behav. 2003;26:1-16.
- Deci EL, Ryan RM. Efficacy, Agency, and Self-Esteem. New York, NY: Plenum Press; 1995.
Cited by
The Effects of Stress on Physical Activity and Exercise
Stults-Kolehmainen, M. A., & Sinha, R. (2014) · Sports Medicine · doi:10.1007/s40279-013-0090-5 · Cited by 1,192
Goldenberg, J. L., & Arndt, J. (2008) · Psychological Review · doi:10.1037/a0013326 · Cited by 320
Influence of Age, Sex, and Race on College Students’ Exercise Motivation of Physical Activity
Egli, T., Bland, H. W., Melton, B. F., & Czech, D. R. (2011) · Journal of American College Health · doi:10.1080/07448481.2010.513074 · Cited by 279
Korkiakangas, E. E., Alahuhta, M. A., & Laitinen, J. H. (2009) · Health Promotion International · doi:10.1093/heapro/dap031 · Cited by 276
HUNTER, S. K., S. ANGADI, S., BHARGAVA, A., HARPER, J., HIRSCHBERG, A. L., D. LEVINE, B., L. MOREAU, K., J. NOKOFF, N., STACHENFELD, N. S., & BERMON, S. (2023) · Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise · doi:10.1249/mss.0000000000003300 · Cited by 241
Metadata
- Authors
- Kilpatrick, M., Hebert, E., & Bartholomew, J.
- Venue
- Journal of American College Health
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2005-09
- Volume
- 54
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 87-94
- ISSN
- 0164-4300 (ISSN-L)
- 0744-8481
- 1940-3208
- OpenAlex
- W1995775667
- Cited by
- 821
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 7.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: College Students' Motivation for Physical Activity: Differentiating Men's and Women's Motives for Sport Participation and Exercise. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.3200/jach.54.2.87-94
- The paper
- Kilpatrick, M., Hebert, E., & Bartholomew, J. (2005). College Students' Motivation for Physical Activity: Differentiating Men's and Women's Motives for Sport Participation and Exercise. Journal of American College Health. https://doi.org/10.3200/jach.54.2.87-94
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
