Effects of Attitude, Motivation, and Eagerness for Physical Activity among Middle-Aged and Older Adults

Table 4

Multivariate regression analysis for predicting motivation (SDMI) in PA.

Coefficients a
Model	Unstandardized coefficients		Standardized coefficients	t	Sig.
	B	SE	B
Overall model: R2 = 0.406; F = 81.16;
(Constant)	0.249	0.524		0.475	0.635
Gender	0.321	0.164	0.054	1.957	0.051
Middle-aged and older adults	−0.554	0.165	−0.090	−3.350	0.001
Friends and family support	0.473	0.083	0.194	5.673	0.000
Total amount of physical activity	−0.230	0.064	−0.113	−3.581	0.000
Eagerness	1.300	0.074	0.540	17.589	0.000
Sports participants	0.096	0.240	0.012	0.400	0.689
Exercise participants	0.082	0.174	0.014	0.469	0.639
Recreation and cultural activity participants	0.185	0.068	0.114	2.727	0.007
Model male: R2 = 0.485; F = 42.9;
(Constant)	0.775	0.888		0.873	0.384
Middle-aged and older adults	−0.639	0.285	−0.092	−2.237	0.026
Friends and family support	0.645	0.149	0.263	4.319	0.000
Total amount of physical activity	−0.460	0.194	−0.142	−2.368	0.018
Eagerness	1.586	0.115	0.642	13.766	0.000
Sports participants	0.007	0.353	0.001	0.021	0.633
Exercise participants	−0.372	0.302	−0.058	−1.230	0.220
Recreation and cultural activity participants	0.190	0.087	0.047	1.036	0.031
Model female: R2 = 0.346; F = 38.1;
(Constant)	2.039	0.634		3.215	0.001
Middle-aged and older adults	−0.565	0.203	−0.100	−2.778	0.006
Friends and family support	0.486	0.114	0.201	4.255	0.000
Total amount of physical activity	−0.180	0.068	−0.107	−2.647	0.008
Eagerness	1.156	0.112	0.492	10.320	0.000
Sports participants	−0.436	0.329	−0.050	−1.323	0.186
Exercise participants	−0.074	0.224	−0.013	−0.332	0.740
Recreation and cultural activity participants	0.201	0.120	0.082	1.677	0.025

^aDependent variable: SDMI.