Physical Activity Beliefs of New Professionals Employed as Academic Professors: An Application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour
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Abstract
Regular physical activity (PA) has been demonstrated to reduce the risk of several chronic diseases and improve physiological and psychological health. Despite these known benefits the majority of Canadian young adults (ages 25-44) remain inactive, and there is a need to promote PA among this at-risk population. One understudied life-transition that may be an important contributor to decreased PA is entering the professional workforce. Professional occupations typically require postgraduate education training (e.g., Ph.D., M.D.), and have been associated with the highest number of work hours and lowest work-related PA (e.g., sitting-time) compared to blue-collar occupations. Academia has been chosen for this study as a bourgeoning example of a professional occupation associated with long work hours, multiple work demands, and low work-related physical energy expenditure. To our knowledge, no study has integrated a well-validated theoretical model of behaviour change to identify the salient beliefs about engaging in regular PA among new professionals during their early career transition (within the last 5-years). Therefore, the purpose of this study was to elicit the most important beliefs about PA participation among a pilot sample of 18 new faculty members at a Western Canadian University using Ajzen’s (2002) theory of planned behaviour beliefs elicitation recommendations. A total of 163 beliefs that collapsed into 45 significant belief-based themes were elicited. On constate que la pratique reguliere de l’activite physique reduit les risques inherents a diverses maladies chroniques et qu’elle ameliore la sante physiologique et psychologique. Mais malgre tous les bienfaits connus de l’activite physique, la plupart des jeunes adultes canadiens (de 25 a 44 ans) ont des modes de vie sedentaires. C’est pourquoi il importe d’encourager ce groupe a risque a s’adonner davantage a l’activite physique. Rares sont les etudes qui se penchent sur l’arrivee des professionnels sur le marche du travail, meme s’il s’agit d’une etape de vie cle menant a une plus grande sedentarite. Puisque la plupart des professionnels ont une formation universitaire de deuxieme cycle ou plus (p. ex., Ph. D., M.D., les types d’emplois qu’ils occupent sont caracterises par de longues heures de travail sedentaire (assis a un bureau, par exemple), ce qui laisse peu de temps pour l’activite physique comparativement aux emplois qu’occupent les cols bleus. Cette etude s’interesse aux professeurs d’universite, des professionnels qui passent beaucoup de temps a accomplir des tâches qui, quoique stressantes, exigent tres peu d’energie physique. Il ne semble exister aucune autre etude integrant un modele theorique des changements comportementaux capable de cerner les grandes croyances sur la pratique reguliere de l’activite physique chez les nouveaux professionnels en debut de carriere (au cours des 5 dernieres annees). Cette etude vise a repertorier les grandes croyances sur la participation a l’activite physique chez un groupe pilote de 18 nouveaux membres du corps professoral de l’Universite Western Canadian, partant des recommandations de la theorie d’Ajzen (2002) qui recherche a eliciter des croyances sur les comportements planifies. Les chercheurs ont a reussi a eliciter 163 croyances qui ont ensuite ete regroupees sous 45 grands themes fondes sur les croyances.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".