Metacognition, Exercise Attitude, and Health Behaviors

IBM SPSS23.0 statistical software and Hayes' (2013) Process plug-in were used for the statistical analysis of the data. A confirmatory factor analysis of all questionnaires was performed using Amos 21.0. First, IBM SPSS23.0 was used to test for common method bias and multicollinearity. Pearson correlation analysis was used to calculate the relationships among metacognition, attitude toward physical exercise, negative emotion, and health-related behaviors. Normally distributed continuous variables were expressed as M ± SD. Finally, to test the mediating effect of attitude toward physical exercise between metacognition and health-related behavior and the regulating effect of emotion, Model 7 in the SPSS macroprogram compiled by Hayes was applied to the collected data. The age and gender of the participants did not differ significantly and were therefore not considered as control variables [44 (link)]. The significance level was set at P < 0.01.