Abstract
While music has been found to motivate exercisers during workouts, its potential as a pre-exercise motivator has rarely been investigated. This study evaluated a self-selected, pre-exercise music intervention against implementation intentions (writing down 'if … then …' sentences relating to overcoming barriers) and a control condition. A total of 50 participants (Mage = 43) took part in a longitudinal, randomised, between-participants study, from 99 recruited. For both interventions, participants had significantly more success meeting self-set exercise goals than the control group, and the music group exercised significantly more frequently than the control group. There was support for music as a comparable intervention to implementation intentions.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 309-320 |
| Journal | Journal of Health Psychology |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Early online date | 25 Oct 2016 |
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| Publication status | Published - 31 Mar 2019 |
Keywords
- Health services research