Talk:Motivation and emotion/Book/2013/Motivating the elderly to exercise

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Hi Jess!

I have found some articles which you may benefit from in your research. I accessed them through Google scholar. I will attach them below.

Also have you considered breaking down your "how to motivate the elderly to exercise?" section into smaller sub-sections e.g. initiating motivation and maintaining motivation? Just a suggestion to break it down a little further and add some depth.

Schutzer, K. A., & Graves, B. S. (2004). Barriers and motivations to exercise in older adults. Preventive medicine, 39(5), 1056-1061.

Phillips, E. M., Schneider, J. C., & Mercer, G. R. (2004). Motivating elders to initiate and maintain exercise. Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation, 85, 52-57.

Mullan, E., & Markland, D. (1997). Variations in self-determination across the stages of change for exercise in adults. Motivation and Emotion, 21(4), 349-362.

Hope this helps.

--Bridgiedidge (discuss • contribs) 02:13, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

Hi Jess!

Awesome to see you have made a start on your chapter!

Now you have established the barriers to exercise for the elderly maybe you could have a look at how this effects their motivation? Or maybe a better way to approach it would be to outline the relevant motivation theories and then discuss how these could be applied to help the elderly overcome these barriers and engage in exercise. I think there is a bit of intformation on self-determination theory.

Hope this helps?

--Bridgiedidge (discuss • contribs) 03:53, 25 October 2013 (UTC) Thanks heaps bridge! I will need to start putting in some motivation theories!

Hi Jess, Your chapter is really starting to take shape and establish a solid structure. I have a few suggestions. Have you considered rearranging you chapter headings so you list the barriers first, then outline the relevant motivation theories second, and then discuss how these can be applied to motivate exercise in the elderly? As a reader I just feel like it might flow a little better and make for an easier read as each section will build on the next. Just some food for thought!

My second suggestion is for your "Theories section". Maybe instead of saying that there are no "specific" motivation theories relevant to your topic you could rephrase it something like, "Unsatisfactory levels of exercise amongst the elderly population is a common problem which needs addressing. In order to address this problem and help the elderly overcome the barriers they face, the following theories of motivation should be harnessed:" Once again as the reader I feel like this would make me have more confidence in the content I am reading just by setting this section up as 'these are the theories relevant to my topic' rather then 'well there aren't any specific theories for my topic, but these ones seem relevant". Does this make sense? Again just another idea.

Keep on keeping on! It's the homestretch now!

I hope this helps and thank you so much for contributing to my chapter. Your feedback is helpful! --Bridgiedidge (discuss • contribs) 07:15, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

P.s: would you be able to help me with my reference list? I can't figure out how to indent the longer ones so they are in APA style! Feel free to directly edit it, I have them saved on an external document. --Bridgiedidge (discuss • contribs) 07:24, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

Hello Jess. Yay, nearly there. A few suggestion for this final stage. Adding some pictures is really going to give you page a lift but I am sure you have already thought about adding this when everyhting else is finished. I thought maybe instead of saying the flow of this chapter... you could propose a few key questions the chapter is aiming to answer. A few other have done this and I have found it to be effective for estblishing the flow without explicitly stating it, does this make sense?

Also I was telling another student a technique I use to tighten up the language is to read the chapter pretending you have no idea about any of this information in there and then ask myself if it makes sense? It just helps bring some clarity of expression. Anyway, goodluck for the final few days. --Bridgiedidge (discuss • contribs) 22:31, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

Some more theories for your topic
Hi my topic was https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Motivation_and_emotion/Book/2013/Health_behaviours and I talked about a few theories for health motivation that overlaps with your topic. The topic 'What motivates such behaviour?' on my page covers several theories that could really add to your chapter if you think they are appropriate. Peg93 (discuss • contribs) 09:20, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

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