ANALYSIS OF COURSE TYPE, GENDER, AND PERSONAL INCENTIVES TO EXERCISE

206 women and 88 men enrolled in classes requiring different amounts o f physical activity were administered the Personal Incentives for Exer cise Questionnaire. A two-way multivariate analysis of variance, with course type and gender as the categorical independent variables and 10 subscale scores representing incentives to exercise as the multivaria te dependent variables, was completed. Canonical discriminant analysis was used to identify which of the incentives is most useful in discri minating among participants in active and less active classes or betwe en men and women. For main effects, analysis indicated an over-all sig nificant difference for both course type and gender. Men scored higher than women on activity and on competition, for example, while women s cored higher on appearance and weight management.