Neither neuroticism nor extraversion relate to exercise adherence to remedial physical education in middle-aged and older women
Abstract
According to some authors, personal characteristics may play role in exercise adherence. The aim of this study was to verify relationship between attendance at remedial physical education and personality factors according to Eysenck (extraversion and neuroticism).
One hundred thirty women who were participating on remedial physical education in Klub Kardia Motol participated in this study (mean age 69,5+-7,3 yrs). Extraversion and neuroticism were measured with the use of Eysenck Personality Inventory (B form).
Exercise attendance was evaluated as percentage of real number of sessions compared to ideal number of sessions, during the year 2007. The results show very high exercise adherence in this group (88,84 %).
In the sample, there were mostly women low in extraversion (73 % of them were rather introverted vs. 22 % rather extroverted). For neuroticism, sample contained 51% rather emotionally stable vs. 38 % of rather emotionally unstable individuals.
Neither correlation analysis nor group comparison showed any relationship between exercise attendance and personality factors