The health-esteem model of motivation for exercise goals: A preliminary study.

IF 1.9 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL

Health Psychology Open Pub Date : 2026-02-27 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI:10.1177/20551029261429320

Keith Sanford

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Abstract

The Health-Esteem Model identifies four health-behavior motivational variables that involve thinking about self-determined ideals: health-esteem, goal alignment, goal feasibility, and goal investment. This study provides a psychometric foundation for using this model to understand motivation for exercise. A sample of 401 participants considering or pursuing exercise goals completed an online survey containing a new questionnaire assessing the four Health-Esteem Model variables, along with three measures of exercise and eight existing scales assessing types of personal motivation for exercise. The new scales each produced robust correlations with exercise, explained variance that could not be explained by existing scales, and demonstrated unique associations with scales involving similar types of evaluation. The sales had bell-shaped distributions with high ceilings, adequate test-information curves, and good fit to an expected factor structure. This study provides strong psychometric support for Health-Esteem Model variables which are theoretically important for health intervention research and distinct from existing scales.

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运动目标动机的健康尊重模型：初步研究。

健康-尊重模型确定了四个健康行为动机变量，这些变量涉及对自我决定理想的思考：健康-尊重、目标一致性、目标可行性和目标投资。本研究为运用该模型理解运动动机提供了心理测量学基础。401名正在考虑或正在追求锻炼目标的参与者完成了一项在线调查，其中包括一份评估健康-尊重模型四个变量的新问卷，以及三项锻炼测量和八个评估个人锻炼动机类型的现有量表。每种新量表都与锻炼产生了强有力的相关性，解释了现有量表无法解释的差异，并展示了与涉及类似评估类型的量表的独特关联。销售具有高天花板的钟形分布，充分的测试信息曲线，并且与预期的因素结构很好地吻合。该研究为健康-自尊模型变量提供了强有力的心理测量学支持，这些变量在健康干预研究中具有重要的理论意义，与现有的量表不同。

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Health Psychology Open Psychology-Clinical Psychology

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12 weeks

期刊介绍： Health Psychology Open (HPO) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access, online-only journal providing rapid publication. HPO is dedicated to publishing cutting-edge research in health psychology from around the world. HPO seeks to provide a platform for both traditional empirical analyses and more qualitative and/or critically oriented approaches to health psychology. All areas of health psychology are covered, but these topics are of particular interest: Clinical health psychology Critical health psychology Community health psychology Health psychology practice Health psychology through a social, cultural or regional lens The journal particularly favours papers that focus on health psychology in practice, including submissions concerning community and/or clinical applications and interventions. Review articles are also welcomed. There is no fixed limit to the length of manuscripts, which is normally strictly limited in other journals, for example HPO’s sister journal, Journal of Health Psychology (JHP). Studies published in this journal are required to obtain ethical approval from an Institutional Review Board. Such approval must include informed, signed consent by all research participants. Any manuscript not containing an explicit statement concerning ethical approval and informed consent will not be considered.