Exercise Of Self-determination Research Articles

Examining the link between exercise motivation and preferred exercise setting in college students

Introduction: This study examined differences in self-determined motivation between those who prefer to exercise outdoors vs indoors. These differences could foster targeted applications of Self-Determination Theory to develop intrinsic exercise motivation. Participants: n = 506 students attending a mid-size four-year university in the southeastern United States participated. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study using a modified version of the Exercise Motivations Inventory (EMI-2). Results: Using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, three exercise motivations were identified: intrinsic, extrinsic, and social. Using structural equation modeling, we found higher extrinsic motivation was associated with indoor exercise preference, whereas higher social motivation was associated with outdoor exercise preference. Discussion: This study revealed exercise setting as a possible contributing factor for self-determined motivation. Those who prefer to exercise indoors may be at higher risk of strengthening external regulation. Interventions that support psychological needs may help foster self-determined exercise motivation among college students.

Beyond unionism and nationalism: do the ‘neithers’ want a border poll and a United Ireland?

ABSTRACT This article draws upon new data from a recent Economic and Social Research Council funded project, Beyond Unionism and Nationalism, 1 to examine whether electors in Northern Ireland identifying as neither nationalist/republican nor unionist/loyalist, the ‘neithers’, desire a referendum on Northern Ireland’s constitutional status (often labelled a border poll) on whether it should remain part of the UK or form part of a United Ireland and which of those two options they prefer. With surveys of public opinion and election results suggesting there are now three minorities in the region, unionists, nationalists and ‘neithers’, the views of the lattermost category may be vital in determining the arrival and outcome of a referendum. Utilising the largest n (2,045) set of face-to-face interviews with ‘neithers’ yet undertaken, the article suggests that their low levels of electoral activity extend to a current lack of enthusiasm for both an exercise in self-determination and a United Ireland. The piece also indicates, however, that national identification and religious affiliation are significant attitudinal indicators even among a group of electors located beyond the traditional bloc divide.

Human Rights and the Ways Relatives Interpret Participation for People with Dementia in Nursing Homes

AbstractThe exercise of self-determination is a human right; however, for people with dementia (PWD), progressive physical and cognitive impairment negatively affects their decision-making processes. For PWD, it is often relatives who make such decisions. This qualitative study included interviews with sixteen relatives of PWD who live in nursing homes. Research questions are as follows: How do relatives understand the participation of PWD who live in nursing homes? How do co-researchers understand participation and the role of relatives? A co-researcher was consulted when the questions were designed. During the interviews with relatives, photos were used to stimulate discussion. Critical situations in nursing homes were discussed with relatives and later interpreted together with a co-researcher. The findings included an understanding of how relatives played a key role in PWD; however, relatives were concerned that PWD were unable to take part in decisions. In addition, relatives named ways that nursing homes opposed human rights, and the co-researchers also highlighted situations that conflicted with human rights. Classifying dementia as a disability at the policy level could strengthen the rights issues of PWD. The key findings of the study are essential for social workers arranging for placement of PWD in nursing homes.

Evaluating the dynamic interaction between the defence / security policy of the US, UN, and Western Sahara

The Western Sahara region has been a source of complex political dispute between Morocco and other parties regarding its control. This issue arose subsequent to the decolonization era, and it is obvious that the process of decolonization has encountered various challenges throughout history. Despite the various approaches proposed by global leaders to address such issues and mitigate potential conflicts that could jeopardize regional security, certain methods such as mandates or the exercise of self-determination may be considered. The issue of Western Sahara has an extensive history of disputes and contentions among three primary parties: The Kingdom of Morocco, Mauritania, and the Polis Ario Front. Each of these parties has advanced claims over Western Sahara that align with their respective interests. On the other hand, the territorial dispute garnered the attention of various key players, including the United Nations and Spain, the former colonizer of the region, among others ("Western Sahara | Facts, History, Conflict, Map, & Population," 2023). This study will centre on the interplay between the defence and security policies of the United States and the United Nations in this multifaced issue.

Self-Defence As Remedial Self-Determination: Continuity in Russian Narratives to Justify Imperialism and the Use of Force

The principle of self-determination is at the centre of the Russian Federation’s (Russia’s) ‘justifications’ for using force against Ukraine and supporting the separatist entities in its eastern provinces, as demonstrated by official statements of Russia’s representatives and the oral and written submissions to the inter-state proceedings on the application of the Genocide Convention before the International Court of Justice (Ukraine v. Russia). In particular, Russia construes self-defence as an exercise of remedial self-determination, supporting territorial separation and the creation of satellite states or their annexation by the Federation. This is in continuity with Russia’s policies and argumentations utilised in other contexts such as Crimea, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. These cases differ in their context and history but share the same remedial approach to external self-determination as a purported justification to use force. This is also in partial continuity with the tradition of Soviet approaches to self-determination. Like other states’ self-indulgent ‘exceptionalism’ in international law, Russia’s cherry-picking application of self-determination reveals its instrumental usage to camouflage imperialistic aggression and expansionistic ambitions.

Decolonizing democratic aims of education in Botswana: Kagisano and outcome-based education

Abstract Botswana’s history is one of an unwavering exercise of self-determination and quest for self-rule. Post-independence, self-government prioritized an overarching philosophy of Kagisano or social harmony within which the aims of education were framed, in conjunction with a political commitment to Botho through democracy. For economic and social reasons the current educational policy of Botswana is driven by outcome-based education (OBE), with its metrics of quantifiable outcomes. This article argues that Olúfemi Táíwò’s analysis of decolonization provides a philosophical lens through which to interpret Botswana’s current educational pathway within the prevailing decolonization discourse. OBE clearly exhibits features of neocolonialism, as it pertains to the national value principles. We draw on Ndlovu-Gatsheni’s decolonial epistemic perspective to frame the discussions. Insofar as OBE can be integrated with Botswana’s ethnically inclusive, community-based view of democracy and associated virtues, this is a worthy goal for education, and it could lead to a particular form of indigenized democracy. Substantive distinctions among the concepts of decolonization, neocolonialism, and decoloniality underwrite this thesis. We see the project of envisaging a future of education in Botswana as having to do with disentangling colonialist–imperialist cultural reproduction from indigenous aspirations.

Self-determination in older patients: Experiences from nurse-dominated ambulance services.

To describe ambulance clinicians' experiences of self-determination in older patients. The study had an inductive and explorative design, guided from a life-world perspective. Thirty-two Swedish ambulance clinicians were interviewed in six focus groups in November 2019. The data were analysed with content analysis, developing manifest categories and latent themes. The ambulance clinicians assessed the older patients' exercise of self-determination by engaging in conversation and by being visually alert, to eventually gain an overall picture of their decision-making capacity. This assessment was used as a platform when informing older patients of their rights, thus promoting their participation in care. Having limited time and narrow guidelines counteracted ambulance clinicians' ambitions to support older patients' general desire to avoid hospitalization, which resulted in an urge to displace their responsibility to external decision-makers. Expectations that older patients with impaired decision-making ability will give homogeneous responses mean an increased risk of ageist attitudes with a simplified view of patient autonomy. Such attitudes risk the withholding of information about options that healthcare professionals do not wish older patients to choose. When decision-making is difficult, requests for expanded guidelines may paradoxically risk alienation from the professional nursing role. The findings show ambulance clinicians' unwillingness to shoulder their professional responsibility when encountering older patients with impaired decision-making ability. In assuming that all older patients reason in the same way, ambulance clinicians tend to adopt a simplistic and somewhat ageist approach when it comes to patient autonomy. This points to deficiencies in ethical competence, which is why increased ethics support is deemed suitable to promote and develop ethical competence. Such support can increase the ability to act as autonomous professionals in accordance with professional ethical codes. This study adhered to COREQ guidelines. None.

Cross-sectional associations of weekly time, social context, and motivation of exercise with mental health among workers.

Exercise is considered a strategy to promote mental health among workers. However, the optimal exercise conditions that promote mental health benefits for workers are still unclear. This study examined the cross-sectional associations of weekly exercise time duration, social context of exercise, and exercise motivation levels with the mental health among Japanese workers. A web-based cross-sectional questionnairesurvey was conducted among 18,902 workers, aged 20-59 years. The mental health variables (psychological distress, psychological stress reaction, physical stress reaction, job satisfaction, and work engagement), exercise participation (non-exercisers, exercisers), and demographic factors of all responders were measured. Weekly exercise time, social context of exercise (alone only, with others only, both alone and with others), and exercise motivation (non-regulation, external/introjected regulation, identified regulation, integrated regulation, and internal regulation) were also measured amongst exercisers. After adjusting for demographic factors, multiple regression analyses were conducted. Exercisers had significantly lower psychological distress, lower psychological and physical stress reactions, higher job satisfaction, and higher work engagement than non-exercisers. Among exercisers, while weekly exercise time duration and social context of exercise were not clearly and robustly associated with mental health variables, respondents with intrinsic regulation had significantly lower psychological distress, lower psychological and physical stress reaction, higher job satisfaction, and higher work engagement than those with lower self-determined motivations. This study found that more self-determined exercise motivation is closely associated with advantageous mental health variables, than the duration or the social context of exercise among Japanese workers.

인간의 존엄한 삶과 죽음에 관한 헌법적 검토

Different individuals have different preferences for the quality of their death, and it is possible for the state to respect these preferences on an individual basis. For instance, some individuals voluntarily choose a lifestyle (and death) of solitude of their own accord and without legal permission to do so. The state cannot intervene or interfere with the choice to live and/or die in solitude. This is markedly differentiable from death in social exclusion or isolation, which is not the choice of the affected individual. In these latter cases, the death is an involuntarily “lonely” death. Last year, the Act on the Prevention and Management of Lonely Death was passed to reduce the number of lonely deaths. The act defines and targets “lonely death” in which a person living alone, disconnected from people around him or her, such as family, relatives and neighbors, dies alone from suicide, disease, etc. and his or her corpse is discovered after a certain period of time. Defining “lonely death” in these terms and as something irreconcilable with the quality of death guaranteed by the constitution necessitates state intervention. This study seeks to determine the constitutional basis for state intervention in lonely deaths and to identify the conditions required to justify such intervention. It confirms that the constitutional basis for state intervention in lonely death does not exist if the economic, social, and cultural conditions of humane living are derived from the basic constitutional right to a life worth of human beings (Art. 34), to health (Art. 36(3)), and to human dignity (Art. 10). In particular, it highlights that in order to guarantee dignity in death by preventing lonely death, the state must prevent the deterioration of the conditions of dignified life (which is a path to lonely death) by actively guaranteeing individual economic stability and health. The traditional, freedom-centered interpretation of basic rights makes it difficult to establish a constitutional basis for the prevention of loneliness by the state. An interpretation which justifies state intervention requires that the state be obligated to expand freedom and guarantee social rights. Considering that social isolation must necessarily involve “self-neglect”, the limitations of this traditional view become even clearer. The Act on the Prevention and Management of Lonely Death does not prescribe intervention in the exercise of an individual's self-determination, but rather aims to intervene when the conditions enabling self-determination are not met. In other words, the active realization of social rights in the constitutional law should be stipulated in the Act on the Prevention and Management of Lonely Death . Namely, the state can protect individuals from the risk of dying alone by actively guaranteeing the right to live humanly under constitutional rights including Article 34 of the Constitution and the right to health under Article 36 (3) of the Constitution.

Using Large-Scale Sensor Data to Test Factors Predictive of Perseverance in Home Movement Rehabilitation: Optimal Challenge and Steady Engagement.

Persevering with home rehabilitation exercise is a struggle for millions of people in the US each year. A key factor that may influence motivation to engage with rehabilitation exercise is the challenge level of the assigned exercises, but this hypothesis is currently supported only by subjective, self-report. Here, we studied the relationship between challenge level and perseverance using long-term, self-determined exercise patterns of a large number of individuals (N = 2,581) engaging in home rehabilitation with a sensor-based exercise system without formal supervision. FitMi is comprised of two puck-like sensors and a library of 40 gamified exercises for the hands, arms, trunk, and legs that are designed for people recovering from a stroke. We found that individuals showed the greatest perseverance with the system over a 2-month period if they had (1) a moderate level of motor impairment and (2) high but not perfect success during the 1st week at completing the exercise game. Further, a steady usage pattern (vs. accelerating or decelerating use) was associated with more overall exercise, and declines in exercise amount over time were associated with exponentially declining session initiation probability rather than decreasing amounts of exercise once a session was initiated. These findings confirm that an optimized challenge level and regular initiation of exercise sessions predict achievement of a greater amount of overall rehabilitation exercise in a group of users of commercial home rehabilitation technology and suggest how home rehabilitation programs and exercise technologies can be optimized to promote perseverance.

Exercise Dependence and Body Image Concerns Amongst Group Fitness Instructors: A Self-Determination Theory Approach.

IntroductionDespite the fact that group fitness instructors serve as significant role models with potentially great impact on class participants' motivation for exercise, they are a very under-researched group. The aim of this study was therefore to examine group fitness instructors' motivational regulations for exercise, and how these motivational regulations can predict symptoms of exercise dependence and body image concerns.MethodsGroup fitness instructors from the largest fitness companies in Norway (n = 837, response rate: 57%) completed an online survey with reference to the Situational Motivation Scale (SIMS), the Exercise Dependence Scale (EDS), the Eating Disorders Inventory subscales drive for thinness (EDI-DT) and body dissatisfaction (EDI-BD), and their weekly amount of exercise and instruction.ResultsThe instructors scored high on identified regulation and intrinsic regulation for exercise. EDS total score was positively correlated with all SIMS subscales and weekly instruction was positively correlated with Intrinsic regulation. Multiple hierarchical regression analyses found that both self-determined motivational regulations as well as external regulation positively predicted their EDS score. External regulation positively predicted EDI-DT, and EDI-BD.ConclusionGroup fitness instructors seem highly intrinsically motivated for exercise, which is hypothesized to have a positive impact on group fitness class participants. High self-determined exercise behavior does not seem to buffer against symptoms of exercise dependence within this specific population. There is a need for awareness of group fitness instructors who show high exercise dependency scores due to the link to body image concerns, amotivation and external regulated motivation.

Using Methods From Computational Decision-making to Predict Nonadherence to Fitness Goals: Protocol for an Observational Study.

BackgroundCan methods from computational models of decision-making be used to build a predictive model to identify individuals most likely to be nonadherent to personal fitness goals? Such a model may have significant value in the global battle against obesity. Despite growing awareness of the impact of physical inactivity on human health, sedentary behavior is increasingly linked to premature death in the developed world. The annual impact of sedentary behavior is significant, causing an estimated 2 million deaths. From a global perspective, sedentary behavior is one of the 10 leading causes of mortality and morbidity. Annually, considerable funding and countless public health initiatives are applied to promote physical fitness, with little impact on sustained behavioral change. Predictive models developed from multimodal methodologies combining data from decision-making tasks with contextual insights and objective physical activity data could be used to identify those most likely to abandon their fitness goals. This has the potential to enable development of more targeted support to ensure that those who embark on fitness programs are successful.ObjectiveThe aim of this study is to determine whether it is possible to use decision-making tasks such as the Iowa Gambling Task to help determine those most likely to abandon their fitness goals. Predictive models built using methods from computational models of decision-making, combining objective data from a fitness tracker with personality traits and modeling from decision-making games delivered via a mobile app, will be used to ascertain whether a predictive algorithm can identify digital personae most likely to be nonadherent to self-determined exercise goals. If it is possible to phenotype these individuals, it may be possible to tailor initiatives to support these individuals to continue exercising.MethodsThis is a siteless study design based on a bring your own device model. A total of 200 healthy adults who are novice exercisers and own a Fitbit (Fitbit Inc) physical activity tracker will be recruited via social media for this study. Participants will provide consent via the study app, which they will download from the Google Play store (Alphabet Inc) or Apple App Store (Apple Inc). They will also provide consent to share their Fitbit data. Necessary demographic information concerning age and sex will be collected as part of the recruitment process. Over 12 months, the scheduled study assessments will be pushed to the subjects to complete. The Iowa Gambling Task will be administered via a web app shared via a URL.ResultsEthics approval was received from Dublin City University in December 2020. At manuscript submission, study recruitment was pending. The expected results will be published in 2022.ConclusionsIt is hoped that the study results will support the development of a predictive model and the study design will inform future research approaches.Trial RegistrationClinicalTrials.gov NCT04783298; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04783298

Self-Determination Through Autonomy or Independence? – On the Current and Future Position of New Caledonia

Abstract New Caledonia is a colonial territory of France. Since the adoption of the Nouméa Accord in 1998, a period of transition towards the exercise of self-determination has been going on. New Caledonia is currently a strong autonomy, well entrenched in the legal order of France from 1999 on. The legislative powers have been distributed between the Congress of New Caledonia and the Parliament of France on the basis of a double enumeration of legislative powers, an arrangement that has given New Caledonia control over many material fields of self-determination. At the same time as this autonomy has been well embedded in the constitutional fabric of France. The Nouméa Accord was constitutionalized in the provisions of the Constitution of France and also in an Institutional Act. This normative framework created a multi-layered electorate that has presented several challenges to the autonomy arrangement and the procedure of self-determination, but the European Court of Human Rights and the UN Human Rights Committee have resolved the issues regarding the right to vote in manners that take into account the local circumstances and the fact that the aim of the legislation is to facilitate the self-determination of the colonized people, the indigenous Kanak people. The self-determination process consists potentially of a series of referendums, the first of which was held in 2018 and the second one in 2020. In both referendums, those entitled to vote returned a No-vote to the question of ‘Do you want New Caledonia to attain full sovereignty and become independent?’ A third referendum is to be expected before October 2022, and if that one also results in a no to independence, a further process of negotiations starts, with the potential of a fourth referendum that will decide the mode of self-determination New Caledonia will opt for, independence or autonomy.

Exercise schema and motivational regulation of college students: A person-centered analysis

To further understand the complex psychological processes involved with motivating health behavior, we sought to examine how one's exercise schema may align with self-determined exercise motivation regulations. Few studies have examined patterns of motivation regulations that may be associated with exercise schema in order to better identify unique motivation-based profiles. We conducted a latent profile analysis on responses from 427 college-aged adults to an exercise self-schema measure (schema identification and schema strength) and five exercise regulation subscales (external, introjected, identified, integrated, intrinsic). A three-class latent profile model fit this data best considering both the fit indices and theoretical implications and confirmed previous research grouping individuals into pre-exerciser schematics, aschematics, and exerciser schematics. However, the model also captured individuals that would have been unclassifiable in the original scoring analysis. Future research may examine the stability of these profiles and methods to better understand schema-regulation profiles and exercise behavior.

Insights on Data Sensitivity from the Technical, Legal and the Users’ Perspectives — Practical suggestions on how to raise more awareness for the assumed exercise of informational self-determination

Article Insights on Data Sensitivity from the Technical, Legal and the Users’ Perspectives — Practical suggestions on how to raise more awareness for the assumed exercise of informational self-determination was published on February 1, 2021 in the journal Computer Law Review International (volume 22, issue 1).

Self-Determined Motivation Mediates the Association between Self-Reported Availability of Green Spaces for Exercising and Physical Activity: An Explorative Study

The aim of the study was to test the associations between the self-reported access to exercise in green spaces (GS) and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) testing the mediating role of the motivation. Based on self-determination theory (SDT), we expected that self-determined motivation will mediate the associations between the self-reported availability of GS for exercising (GSE) and MVPA with the most self-determined exercise regulation forms (identified and intrinsic motivation) demonstrating the strongest positive associations between the variables. Method: The sample consisted of 2154 participants (74.7% women). The ages ranged from 18 to 79 years, with a mean age of 32.6 (SD = 12.2) years. Participants completed the Behavior Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire-2, the measures of self-reported distance to residential GS (RGS), availability of the GS for exercising (GSE), and physical activity (PA). Logistic regression and path analysis were used to test the associations between study variables. Results: Higher reported distance to RGS was associated with lower reported availability of GSE, but not PA. Availability of GSE was directly associated with more frequent MVPA. More autonomous forms of exercise behavior regulation (intrinsic and identified regulations) mediated the associations between self-reported availability of GSE and MVPA. Internal and identified exercise regulations were directly associated with more frequent MVPA. Conclusions: The results of the present study support the main tenets of SDT suggesting that self-determined behavioral exercise regulation is an important mediator between the self-reported availability of GSE and general MVPA. Practical implications of these findings are discussed herein.

Alquimia em “un mundo al revés”: O ouro, o “direito cru” e o direito indígena em um conflito armado na Colômbia

Using the concept of alchemy as a conceptual backbone, this article explores the effects of diverse legal pluralities on the Embera Chami Indigenous people living in the gold-rich ancestral homeland of the Resguardo Indigena Canamomo Lomaprieta in Caldas, Colombia. Drawing on ten years of collaborative research and ethnography, I develop a concept I call “Raw Law,” the law of outlawed, armed actors and their norms, sanctions and modus operandi, contributing insights that push conceptual boundaries and add complexity to analyses of “the law.” I show the “inter-il-legalities” at work, as the Embera Chami exercise their own law over their self-named and centuries-old “ancestral mining,” as a counter-proposal and exercise of self-determination in the face of State Law that criminalizes this gold mining and attempts to impose unilaterally developed formalization schemes. I tease out the effects of “nefarious alchemical” technologies deployed to erode the Embera Chami land base and constrain their autonomy and decision-making, highlighting the “positive alchemies” the traditional authorities use to assert their self-government and push for their rights to be upheld. I consider the types of transnational flows intruding on the Embera Chami and what this distinct and violent context means for analysis through the lens of legal pluralities in Colombia, Latin America, and beyond.

Realidades situadas en tiempos de COVID-19: Pueblos indígenas amazónicos Waorani frente a la pandemia y el extractivismo en el Ecuador

En el presente trabajo se expone cómo el Estado-nación aplicó un modelo homogenizante de atención en la emergencia sanitaria que desconoció, en un inicio, las particularidades de la población, la situación geográfica, la provisión y acceso de servicios básicos (alimentación y agua segura) y de salud, las necesidades de acuerdo a las culturas, así como la protección específica sobre diferentes formas de violencia en los territorios y hacia las mujeres en espacios familiares y/o comunitarios. Se observa a lo largo del artículo una discusión sobre el centralismo y verticalismo institucional y el ejercicio de la autodeterminación de los pueblos indígenas en tiempos de emergencia; así como la configuración de respuestas universalizantes que desconocen la diversidad y serias dificultades para materializar el Estado Plurinacional en Ecuador. Con sus matices y diferencias, los pueblos amazónicos demandan en tiempos de pandemia garantía de sus derechos, el respeto a sus formas tradicionales de vida, una atención de salud culturalmente apropiada, la defensa del territorio contra el extractivismo y la desposesión.

노동의 디지털화와 근로자의 자기결정권 보장

With the advancement of digitalization of labor and the spread of flexible working hours, including telecommuting, the boundaries between work and life (rest) of workers have become blurred. This is because it is possible to provide labor that transcends time and space. In this changing environment, workers are demanding the exercise of self-determination over working hours. By actively using information and communication technology (ICT) and flexible working hours (selective working hours, discretionary working hours, telecommuting, etc.) stipulated in the Labor Standards Act. It is hoping that work and life (home or self-development) will be compatible (the active demand of the generation with strong self-sufficient values).<BR> The right to self-determination granted to workers is a basic right guaranteed by the Constitution. Therefore, workers’ right to self-determination should be guaranteed even in the area of working hours under the Labor Law. This premise also applies to the selective working-time system stipulated in the Labor Standards Act and telecommuting (working-time outside the workplace), a new form of work in the era of‘Post COVID’.<BR> It is applied uniformly. In this article, I would like to explore the basis for workers’ self-determination of working hours and methods of guaranteeing them, and ways to enable home work, a new form of work that transcends time and space, to be settled in the workplace.

Playing the Turkish card: British policy and Cyprus in the 1950s

This article revises the narrative of the pre-independence troubles in Cyprus to take greater account of Anglo-Turkish interactions. Initial Turkish reluctance to play any role was overcome by the determination of Harold Macmillan as British Foreign Secretary after April 1955 to bring the country into the centre of the picture. The analysis underlines how, far from simplifying any solution, this intensified Turkish suspicions of the motivations behind British policy. These doubts came to pivot on the option of partition in any exercise of Cypriot self-determination. The end-game of Cypriot independence was characterized not by ‘Anglo-Turkish alliance’, but by a fragile Greco-Turkish understanding.