Table 4.
Summary of Items and Factor Loadings for 3-Factor Solution for Nonexercisers and Exercisers Not Meeting Recommendations (n = 253)
| Factor loading |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Factors | Items | 1 | 2 | 3 | Communality | Eigenvalues | Variance | Cronbach's α |
| Personal barriers | 2.756 | 30.6% | 0.761 | |||||
| Lack of interest in doing exercise | 0.872 | –0.03 | 0.181 | 0.796 | ||||
| Lack of self-discipline | 0.864 | 0.028 | 0.201 | 0.788 | ||||
| Don't like to exercise/or I think exercise is boring | 0.648 | 0.274 | –0.099 | 0.508 | ||||
| Physical comfort barriers | 1.550 | 17.2% | 0.619 | |||||
| Very conscious of my physical appearance while doing exercise | –0.125 | 0.718 | 0.043 | 0.477 | ||||
| The weather (temperature) | 0.186 | 0.625 | 0.080 | 0.471 | ||||
| I am too overweight to exercise | 0.011 | 0.688 | 0.161 | 0.458 | ||||
| Very tired | 0.347 | 0.644 | 0.056 | 0.489 | ||||
| Commitments barriers | 1.138 | 12.6% | 0.553 | |||||
| I do not have child care for me to go and exercise | 0.034 | 0.159 | 0.812 | 0.555 | ||||
| Lack of time | 0.167 | 0.087 | 0.796 | 0.637 | ||||