Table 3.
Associations between exercise initiation and baseline demographic, smoking, social support and hours watching television.
| Year 2 | Year 3 | Year 4 | |||||
| Adopt N = 135 |
Sedentary N = 447 |
Adopt N = 73 |
Sedentary N = 347 |
Adopt N = 48 |
Sedentary N = 326 |
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| Gender | Female | 108 80.0% |
356 79.6% |
51 69.9% |
305*** 81.5% |
36 75.0% |
269 82.5% |
| Age (years) | 37.9 SD = 6.3 |
37.5 SD = 6.3 |
38.2 SD = 5.2 |
37.4 SD = 6.5 |
37.4 SD = .6.7 |
37.4 SD = 6.6 |
|
| BMI (kg/m2) | 27.34 SD = 6.1 |
28.4* SD = 6.3 |
27.6 SD = 5.5 |
28.5 SD = 6.4 |
28.3 SD = 6.9 |
28.6 SD = 6.4 |
|
| Employed | Yes | 114 84.4% |
360 80.5% |
63 86.3% |
297 79.4% |
38 79.5% |
259 79.5% |
| Ethnicity | White | 118 87.4% |
382 85.5% |
63 86.3% |
319 85.3% |
42 87.5% |
277 84.5% |
| Income Group | < $25,000 | 41 30.4% |
177** 39.6% |
26 35.6% |
151 40.4% |
20 41.7% |
131 40.2% |
| Marital Status | Married | 69 51.1% |
219 49.0% |
33 45.2% |
186 49.7% |
30 62.5% |
156 47.9% |
| Sep/Div/ Widowed | 22 16.3% |
74 16.5% |
13 17.8% |
61 16.3% |
9 18.8% |
52 16.0% |
|
| Never Married | 44 32.59% |
154 34.5% |
27 37.0% |
127 34.0% |
9 18.8% |
18.8* 36.2% |
|
| Education | HS degree or less | 14 10.4% |
59 13.2% |
7 9.6% |
52 13.9% |
5 10.4% |
47 14.4% |
| HS degree + some college | 49 36.3% |
186 41.6% |
25 34.3% |
161 43.1% |
19 39.6% |
142 43.6% |
|
| College degree + more | 72 53.3% |
202 45.2% |
41 56.2% |
161 43.1% |
24 50.0% |
137 42.0% |
|
| Smoking status | yes | 25 18.5% |
106 23.7% |
15 20.6% |
91 24.3% |
6 12.5% |
85** 26.1% |
| TV/day | 2.4 SD = 1.9 |
2.7 SD = 2.6 |
2.1 SD = 1.6 |
2.8*** SD = 2.8 |
2.6 SD = 3.2 |
2.8 SD = 2.7 |
|
| Social support family | 3.0 SD = 1.3 |
2.7*** SD = 1.3 |
2.6 SD = 1.4 |
2.7 SD = 1.3 |
2.9 SD = 1.2 |
2.6 SD = 1.3 |
|
| Social support friend | 2.8 SD = 1.2 |
2.6** SD = 1.2 |
2.5 SD = 1.1 |
2.6 SD = 1.2 |
2.5 SD = 1.2 |
2.6 SD = 1.2 |
|
*** denotes significant difference at the p < .001
** denotes significant difference at the p < .05