The Social Cognitive Theory and Exercise

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SCT seems to be useful in understanding factors associated with physical exercise, with self-efficacy and goals being the strongest predictors.

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Unmeasured socio-structural, environmental, and personal variables could contribute to an increase of SCT’s explanation of variance in physical activity behaviour.

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SCT's conceptualisation has led to a variation in the model constructs’ operational definitions as well as usage of a wide variety of tools to measure those

(Young et al., 2014).

Predicting Physical Activity

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"An evaluation of the usefulness of Social Cognitive Theory for predicting individuals' exercise behaviour"

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Self-efficacy

Outcome-expectancy

Goals

Self-regulatory skills

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