TY  - GEN
A1  - Schweizer, Geoffrey
A1  - Bluemke, Matthias
A1  - Brand, Ralf
A1  - Kahlert, Daniela
T1  - Exercise might be good for me, but I don't feel good about it : do automatic associations predict exercise behavior?
N2  - Models employed in exercise psychology highlight the role of reflective processes for explaining behavior change. However, as discussed in social cognition literature, information-processing models also consider automatic processes (dual-process models). To examine the relevance of automatic processing in exercise psychology, we used a priming task to assess the automatic evaluations of exercise stimuli in physically active sport and exercise majors (n = 32), physically active nonsport majors (n = 31), and inactive students (n = 31). Results showed that physically active students responded faster to positive words after exercise primes, whereas inactive students responded more rapidly to negative words. Priming task reaction times were successfully used to predict reported amounts of exercise in an ordinal regression model. Findings were obtained only with experiential items reflecting negative and positive consequences of exercise. The results illustrate the potential importance of dual-process models in exercise psychology.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - paper 178 
KW  - exercise
KW  - health behavior
KW  - automatic processes
KW  - evaluative priming
KW  - affective priming
Y1  - 2010
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-42510
ER  - 
TY  - RPRT
A1  - Caliendo, Marco
A1  - Hennecke, Juliane
T1  - Drinking is Different!
BT  - Examining the Role of Locus of Control for Alcohol Consumption
T2  - CEPA Discussion Papers
N2  - Unhealthy behavior can be extremely costly from a micro- and macroeconomic perspective and exploring the determinants of such behavior is highly important from an economist’s point of view. We examine whether locus of control (LOC) can explain alcohol consumption as an important domain of health behavior. LOC measures how much an individual believes that she is in control of the consequences of her own actions for her life’s future outcomes. While earlier literature showed that an increasing internal LOC is associated with increased health-conscious behavior in domains such as smoking, exercise or diets, we find that drinking seems to be different. Using German panel data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) we find a significant positive effect of having an internal LOC on the probability of moderate and regular drinking. We suggest and discuss two likely mechanisms for this relationship and find interesting gender differences. While social investments play an important role for both men and women, risk perceptions are especially relevant for men.
T3  - CEPA Discussion Papers - 18 
KW  - locus of control
KW  - alcohol consumption
KW  - health behavior
KW  - risk perception
KW  - social investment
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-469790
SN  - 2628-653X
IS  - 18
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Caliendo, Marco
A1  - Hennecke, Juliane
T1  - Drinking is different!
BT  - examining the role of locus of control for alcohol consumption
JF  - Empirical economics
N2  - Locus of control (LOC) measures how much an individual believes in the causal relationship between her own actions and her life’s outcomes. While earlier literature has shown that an increasing internal LOC is associated with increased health-conscious behavior in domains such as smoking, exercise or diets, we find that drinking seems to be different. Using very informative German panel data, we extend and generalize previous findings and find a significant positive association between having an internal LOC and the probability of occasional and regular drinking for men and women. An increase in an individual’s LOC by one standard deviation increases the probability of occasional or regular drinking on average by 3.4% for men and 6.9% for women. Using a decomposition method, we show that roughly a quarter of this association can be explained by differences in the social activities between internal and external individuals.
KW  - locus of control
KW  - alcohol consumption
KW  - health behavior
KW  - risk perception
KW  - social activity
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-022-02219-3
SN  - 0377-7332
SN  - 1435-8921
VL  - 63
IS  - 5
SP  - 2785
EP  - 2815
PB  - Springer
CY  - Berlin
ER  -