{"title":"Communal versus Individuating Exercise: Age Differences in Responses to Messaging About Group Exercise Programs.","authors":"Sydni Adams, Joseph A Mikels","doi":"10.1080/0361073X.2026.2631323","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Understanding age differences in exercise preferences is important for targeting messages to groups across the life span. This study examined how younger and older adults differed in their affective and evaluative responses to statements about different group-based exercise programs.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Younger (<i>n</i> = 129) and older adults (<i>n</i> = 125) responded to statements about exercise programs (i.e. feelings about the programs, effectiveness of the statements, and likelihood to join the programs).</p><p><strong>Results and conclusions: </strong>Older adults gave lower ratings to individuating versus communal programs, whereas younger adult ratings did not differ by program. As such, communally focused programs seem to be the most effective for encouraging a wide audience of age groups to participate in exercise programs.</p>","PeriodicalId":12240,"journal":{"name":"Experimental Aging Research","volume":" ","pages":"606-622"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5000,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Experimental Aging Research","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0361073X.2026.2631323","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2026/2/23 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"GERIATRICS & GERONTOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Background: Understanding age differences in exercise preferences is important for targeting messages to groups across the life span. This study examined how younger and older adults differed in their affective and evaluative responses to statements about different group-based exercise programs.
Method: Younger (n = 129) and older adults (n = 125) responded to statements about exercise programs (i.e. feelings about the programs, effectiveness of the statements, and likelihood to join the programs).
Results and conclusions: Older adults gave lower ratings to individuating versus communal programs, whereas younger adult ratings did not differ by program. As such, communally focused programs seem to be the most effective for encouraging a wide audience of age groups to participate in exercise programs.
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Experimental Aging Research is a life span developmental and aging journal dealing with research on the aging process from a psychological and psychobiological perspective. It meets the need for a scholarly journal with refereed scientific papers dealing with age differences and age changes at any point in the adult life span. Areas of major focus include experimental psychology, neuropsychology, psychobiology, work research, ergonomics, and behavioral medicine. Original research, book reviews, monographs, and papers covering special topics are published.
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