Processes of Exercise Behavior Change in Students: Cognitive or Behavioral?

This study investigates Processes of Exercise Behavior Change on the basis of famous Trans theoretical model (Prochaska et al, 1986). The number of 292 students (144 boys and 148 girls) were selected by multi-stage clustered. Then, they completed Stages of Exercise Behavior Change (SEBC) (Cardinal, 1997, and Processes of change (Nigg, 2001) questionnaires. For data analysis, ANOVA and Multiple Discriminant Function Analysis tests were used. The results showed that in behavioral processes (no cognitive) there was significant difference between SEBC (P