Table 2.
Associations between exercise maintenance and baseline demographic, smoking, social support and hours watching television.
| Year 2 | Year 3 | Year 4 | |||||
| Maintain N = 378 |
Non-maintain N = 186 |
Maintain N = 277 |
Non-maintain N = 230 |
Maintain N = 216 |
Non-maintain N = 256 |
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| Gender | Female | 300 79.4% |
153 82.3% |
214 77.3% |
194*** 84.4% |
170 78.7% |
209 81.6% |
| Age (years) | 38.0 SD = 6.6 |
36.9 SD = 8.4 |
38.3 SD = 6.6 |
36.9** SD = 8.0 |
38.7 SD = 6.5 |
37.1** SD = 7.9 |
|
| BMI (kg/m2) | 25.5 SD = 4.7 |
27.8*** SD = 6.0 |
25.7 SD = 4.7 |
26.7** SD = 5.8 |
25.4 SD = 4.6 |
27.0*** SD = 5.8 |
|
| Employed | Yes | 341 90.2% |
154*** 82.8% |
250 90.3% |
197 85.7% |
200 92.6% |
217*** 84.8% |
| Ethnicity | White | 350 92.6% |
153*** 82.3% |
259 93.5% |
192*** 83.5% |
203 94.0% |
222*** 86.7% |
| Income Group | < $25,000 | 111 29.4% |
79*** 42.5% |
82 29.6% |
89** 38.9% |
57 26.4% |
108*** 42.2% |
| Marital Status | Married | 181 47.9% |
85 45.7% |
130 46.9% |
108 47.0% |
106 49.1% |
115 44.9% |
| Sep/Div/ Widowed | 59 15.6% |
37 19.9% |
42 15.2% |
39 17.0% |
35 16.2% |
49 19.1% |
|
| Never Married | 111 29.4% |
79 42.5% |
105 37.9% |
83 36.1% |
75 34.7% |
92 35.9% |
|
| Education | HS or less | 35 9.26% |
35 18.8% |
23 8.3% |
40 17.4% |
15 6.9% |
41 16.0% |
| HS + some college | 128 33.8% |
64 34.4% |
93 33.6% |
79 34.4% |
73 33.8% |
96 37.5% |
|
| College or more | 215 56.9% |
87*** 46.8% |
161 58.1% |
111 48.3% |
128 59.3% |
119*** 46.5% |
|
| Smoking | yes | 42 11.1% |
38*** 20.4% |
29 10.5% |
39** 16.7% |
24 11.1% |
45** 17.6% |
| TV/day | 1.8 SD = 1.8 |
2.5*** SD = 2.20 |
1.78 SD = 1.6 |
2.4*** SD = 2.1 |
1.7 SD = 1.5 |
2.4*** SD = 2.1 |
|
| Social support family | 3.0 SD = 1.4 |
2.8 SD = 1.2 |
3.0 SD = 1.4 |
2.9 SD = 1.3 |
3.0 SD = 1.4 |
2.9 SD = 1.3 |
|
| Social support friend | 3.0 SD = 1.2 |
3.1 SD = 1.2 |
3.0 SD = 1.2 |
3.0 SD = 1.2 |
3.0 SD = 1.2 |
3.0 SD = 1.2 |
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** denotes significant difference at the p < .05
*** denotes significant difference at the p < .001