A pilot study examining exercise self-efficacy as a mediator for walking behavior in college-age women.

Percept Mot Skills

Department of Nursing, Winona State University, P.O. Box 5838, ST 313, Winona, MN 55987-5838, USA.

Published: June 2010

This pilot study examined the possible mediation of walking behavior by exercise self-efficacy in an Internet-delivered intervention in a sample of college-age women. Exercise self-efficacy did not mediate walking behavior as determined using nonparametric bootstrapping methods.

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