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Sex Differences in Correlations between Personal Incentives and Self-Motivation,and Occurrence of Perceived Positive Changes in Feeling States after Exercise
Personal incentives for exercising of weight management and appearance improvement were significantly correlated with percentage of positive exercise-induced feeling changes in women (n = 23) and men (n = 20) initiating 12-wk. exercise programs. No significant differences were found by sex. Self-motivation was also significantly related to occurrence of positive feeling changes for men.
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