Physical activity awareness and its relationship with motivation among college students: development and validation of a Multidimensional Scale
Rulan Shangguan, Jiajing Xie, Xiaofen Hamilton · 2026
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Rulan Shangguan, Jiajing Xie, and Xiaofen Hamilton develop a scale for physical activity awareness in college students in a 2026 study. Young adults move too little, and how they perceive their own activity and surroundings may matter as much as fitness itself. Focus groups first mapped what awareness means to students.
Four parts emerged: personal awareness, social support awareness, environmental awareness, and awareness of activity recommendations. A survey of 994 students at eight universities confirmed the structure, with an RMSEA of 0.046 in the reported model. Subscale reliability ran from 0.741 to 0.919 across the set. Campuses could use the scale to find which awareness gap keeps each student inactive.
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| CREATOR | Rulan Shangguan, Jiajing Xie, Xiaofen Hamilton |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 56852 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |