Table 2.
Correlation analyses among exercise identity, physical activity, and Instagram use metrics.
| Metrics | Variables | ||||||||||
|
|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||||
| Pearson r |
|
|
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
Exercise identity | — |
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
Weekly PAa minutes at moderate to high intensity (METb ≥3/week) | 0.49 | — |
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
Percentage of physical activity–related Instagram posts | 0.38 | 0.03 | — |
|
|
|||||
|
|
Percentage of verified fitness-related Instagram following | 0.39 | 0.23 | 0.19 | — |
|
|||||
|
|
Average number of “likes” received for the physical activity–related Instagram posts | 0.05 | 0.01 | –0.04 | –0.13 | — | |||||
| P value |
|
|
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
Exercise identity | — |
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
Weekly PAa minutes at moderate to high intensity (METb ≥3/week) | .001 | — |
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
Percentage of physical activity–related Instagram posts | .01 | .86 | — |
|
|
|||||
|
|
Percentage of verified fitness-related Instagram following | .01 | .14 | .23 | — |
|
|||||
|
|
Average number of “likes” received for the physical activity–related Instagram posts | .75 | .95 | .78 | .43 | — | |||||
aPA: physical activity.
bMET: metabolic equivalent of task.