{"id":23180,"date":"2013-06-25T08:32:50","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T13:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=23180"},"modified":"2013-06-25T08:55:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T13:55:12","slug":"phd-student-studies-what-motivates-women-to-work-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2013\/06\/phd-student-studies-what-motivates-women-to-work-out\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD student studies what motivates women to work out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23193\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/body-image-for-brock-news.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23193\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-23193\" title=\"Reflection of young woman in a mirror\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/body-image-for-brock-news-1024x762.jpg\" alt=\"A Brock PhD student is studying the relationship between body image and attitudes toward physical activity in women. \" width=\"504\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Brock PhD student is studying the relationship between body image and attitudes toward physical activity in women. <\/p><\/div>\n<p>Lindsay Cline is a PhD student in <a title=\"Applied Health Sciences\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/applied-health-sciences\" target=\"_blank\">Faculty of Applied Health Sciences,<\/a> who is examining the effect that body image has on women&#8217;s motivation to engage in regular physical activity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite the well-known benefits of physical activity, there is still extremely low participation rates among children, adolescents and adults,&#8221; says Cline. &#8220;These low levels of participation are even more pronounced in girls and young women.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cline recently received a <a title=\"Joseph-Armand Bombardier Scholarship\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca\/funding-financement\/programs-programmes\/fellowships\/cgs_masters-besc_maitrise-eng.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship<\/a> to support her PhD research that investigates the impact that positive appearance comments &#8211; those well-intentioned compliments &#8211; have on body-related thoughts, feelings and behaviours among young adult women.<\/p>\n<p>Although the comments are expressed in a positive manner, Cline says some women may not interpret them that way and it could actually negatively influence their body image.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My research will determine if there are certain characteristics that pre-dispose women to feel poorly about their body even from intended positive comments,&#8221; she says. &#8220;So, for example, determining whether a woman&#8217;s body weight or her appearance satisfaction affect how she responds to a comment made about her physical appearance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After we identify some of these initial relationships, we plan to investigate how those experiences affect a woman&#8217;s motivation to engage in physical activity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cline, who is supervised by<a title=\"Kimberley Gammage\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/applied-health-sciences\/faculty-directory\/kinesiology\/kimberley-l-gammage\" target=\"_blank\"> Prof. Kimberley Gammage, <\/a>will collect data through questionnaires and interviews with young women about their body image and exercise activity.<\/p>\n<p>Her research makes a strong connection between healthy body image and healthy motivation for being active.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to ensure that women are engaging in exercise for healthy reasons and are not solely motivated based on feelings of shame, guilt or dissatisfaction with their physical appearance,&#8221; she says. &#8220;Internal motivation, where women are motivated for health and enjoyment reasons may prove to be the best strategy for their exercise adherence in the long run.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Video\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/applied-health-sciences\/future-students\/future-grad-students\/grad-focus\/lindsay-cline\" target=\"_blank\">Watch a video in which Lindsay Cline talks about this research.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lindsay Cline is a PhD student in Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, who is examining the effect that body image has on women&#8217;s motivation to engage in regular physical activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":23193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[28,1130,1131,3325,1132,82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23180"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23182,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23180\/revisions\/23182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}