Examination of physical activity, barriers, and wellbeing in mothers within one year of giving birth
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Many new moms express a desire to be physically active but encounter a variety of barriers, such as lack of perceived social support. Different types of support might be needed for new mothers to be active (e.g., for exercise- or postpartum-related barriers). While social support (SS) has been shown to improve physical activity and well-being, there is a need to understand moderators of these relationships. Exercise-related cognitive errors (ECEs) bias how accurately individuals view their physical activity and might impact the support-activity relationship. It was hypothesized that ECEs and social support would interact to predict physical activity, barrier self-efficacy, and psychological well-being in the first year after giving birth. New moms (N= 268, Mage=29.96 years ± 6.12) completed a self-reported survey using the ECE questionnaire (ECE-Q), Social Support for Exercise scale (SSES; 2 subscales family and friends), a modified Postpartum Support questionnaire (PSSQ; 2 subscales: family and friends), Psychological Well-being scale (PWBS), barrier self-efficacy, and the short form International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ). SSES friends individually predicted physical activity bouts (B = .270, p < .001; R2 =.06, p < .001) beyond covariates. SSES family (B = .219, p < .001) and the ECE-Q (B = .141, p = .025) predicted physical activity bouts (R2 = .04, p < .001) beyond covariates. SSES from friends (B = .261, p <.001) and the ECE-Q (B = -.180, p = .002) predicted barrier-efficacy (R2 = .03, p < .001) beyond covariates. SSES from family (B = .274, p < .001) and the ECE-Q (B = -.145, p = .014) predicted barrier-efficacy (R2 = .02, p < .001) beyond covariates. SSES (B = -.288, p <.001) PSSQ (B = .490, p <.001) from friends and ECEs (B = -.121, p = .027) were predictors for PWBS (R2 = .01, p < .001) beyond the covariates. PSSQ from family (B = .433, p < .001), and the ECE-Q (B = -.150, p = .007; predicted PWBS (R2 = .02, p < .001) beyond covariates. None of the interactions were significant. While previous research has observed an interaction between SSES and ECEs in predicting physical activity bouts during pregnancy, the current findings did not support this interaction after birth for new mothers. Findings underscore possible predictors of how new mothers view and overcome their physical activity barriers and of their wellbeing.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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.
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