Automatic activation of exercise motivation

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25350729
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Developmental mechanisms and the body works
• Research Institution: Kagoshima University
• Principal Investigator: Fujita Tsutomu 鹿児島大学, 法文教育学域教育学系, 准教授 (30452923)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 動機づけ / プライミング / 非意識過程 / 感情誤帰属手続き / 潜在指標 / スポーツ / 乱文構成課題 / 閾上刺激

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study was to activate exercise motivation unconsciously. The study implemented an experimental method using the affect misattribution procedure and scrambled sentences. A PC program was used for the affect misattribution procedure measuring motivational differences. After completing a scrambled sentences task, subjects started exercising on a bicycle ergometer. The heart rate of subjects was recorded to compare between the experimental and control groups. The results of this study were used to develop a scale of implicit exercise motivation, and indicated a tendency to activate exercise motivation for personal psychological factors. Further, we observed to activate exercise motivation of environmental psychological factors.

Free Research Field

体育心理学