A cross-sectional study of awareness of physical activity: associations with personal, behavioral and psychosocial factors

Table 2 Adjusted means (standard error, SE), proportions and observed associations between awareness of physical activity (PA) level and physical activity-related psychosocial factors (N = 632)

	Realistic active (RA)	Realistic inactive (RI)	Overestimators (OE)	Underestimators (UE)	Differences ^a
N	273 (43.2%)	124 (19.6%)	197 (31.2%)	38 (6.1%)
Benefits^b	2.56 (0.60)	2.49 (0.62)	2.56 (0.62)	2.66 (0.55)	-
Barriers^b	0.99 (0.56)	1.38 (0.53)	0.98 (0.53)	1.36 (0.49)	RI>RA, OE (all: p < 0.001) UE>RA, OE (all: p < 0.01)
Self efficacy ^b
making time for PA	2.31 (0.97)	1.43 (0.95)	2.14 (1.02)	2.08 (1.03)	RI<RA, OE, UE (all: p < 0.01)
resisting relapse	2.35 (1.00)	1.53 (1.03)	2.27 (1.05)	2.11 (1.05)	RI<RA, OE, UE (all: p < 0.02)
Processes of change ^b
cognitive	1.28 (0.68)	1.22 (0.61)	1.29 (0.61)	1.61 (0.67)	UE>RA, RI, OE (all: p < 0.05)
behavioral	1.31 (0.65)	1.13 (0.57)	1.26 (0.61)	1.47 (0.64)	RI<OE (p < 0.05)
Intention to increase PA ^c (%yes)
in next month	17.2	23.4	15.7	34.2	UE>OE, RA (all: p < 0.05)
in next 6 months	24.2	42.7	27.4	47.4	RA<RI, UE (all: p < 0.005) OE<RI, UE (all: p < 0.05)

^a: all statistically significant differences between groups are reported; -: no differences observed.;
^b: tested with Analyses of CoVariance (ANCOVA) using Bonforoni posthoc analyses, adjusted for PA intervention, measurement intervention and total minutes of at least moderate intensity PA per week;
^c: tested with Chi-square

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