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Table 4.

Associations Between Affective Response to Exercise and Next-day Exercise Levels, Mediated by Outcome Expectancy

		a Path (affect on outcome expectations)		b Path (outcome expectations on exercise)		Direct effect (c’ path)		Indirect effect
		Beta estimate (SE)	p	Beta estimate (SE)	p	Beta estimate (SE)	p	Beta estimate (SE)	p
WS Effect (Positive outcome expectation)	Piece 1 Model (Some vs. zero exercise minutes)	0.026 (0.004)	<.001	0.068 (0.049)	.167	−0.002 (0.003)	.527	0.002 (0.001)	.178
	Piece 2 Model (exercise minutes)^a			0.051 (0.025)	.040	0.002 (0.002)	.498	0.001 (0.001)	.047
WS Effect (Negative outcome expectation)	Piece 1 Model (Some vs. zero exercise minutes)	−0.017 (0.004)	<.001	−0.003 (0.043)	.942	−0.002 (0.003)	.527	0.000 (0.001)	.942
	Piece 2 Model (exercise minutes)^a			0.019 (0.027)	.485	0.002 (0.002)	.498	0.000 (0.000)	.485
BS Effect (Positive outcome expectation)	Piece 1 Model (Some vs. zero exercise minutes)	0.052 (0.007)	<.001	−0.008 (0.045)	.859	0.002 (0.004)	.592	0.000 (0.002)	.859
	Piece 2 Model (exercise minutes)^a			0.045 (0.033)	.181	0.001 (0.003)	.740	0.002 (0.002)	.194
BS Effect (Negative outcome expectation)	Piece 1 Model (Some vs. zero exercise minutes)	−0.043 (0.006)	<.001	0.021 (0.045)	.633	0.002 (0.004)	.592	-0.001 (0.002)	.637
	Piece 2 Model (exercise minutes)^a			−0.058 (0.037)	.116	0.001 (0.003)	.740	0.002 (0.002)	.113

All models controlled for the pre-exercise affective state, exercise duration, participant’s weight category, baseline activity, and wave of the assessment. Bold values indicate a p value < .05.

BS between-subject; SE standard error; WS within-subject.

^aExercise minutes were log-transformed.