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Development and validation of the Value of Physical Effort (VoPE) scaleuse asterix (*) to get italics
Maik Bieleke, Johanna Stähler, Wanja Wolff, Julia SchülerPlease use the format "First name initials family name" as in "Marie S. Curie, Niels H. D. Bohr, Albert Einstein, John R. R. Tolkien, Donna T. Strickland"
2024
<p>Physical effort has instrumental value because it helps people attain their goals. Growing evidence suggests that people might also experience the exertion of effort itself as valuable. To test this idea, we developed and examined the 4-item Value of Physical Effort (VoPE) scale. Across three independent studies (total N = 1364), we established the basic psychometric properties of the VoPE scale and showed consistent associations with measures of sports and exercise behavior. In a study with a longitudinal design, the VoPE scale demonstrated test-retest reliability and forecasted physical activity and exercise behavior. Psychometric network analysis and elastic net regression suggest the VoPE scale’s potential to cover a unique content area and make novel contributions to the prediction of sports behavior. Taken together, the present research yields empirical evidence for the idea that people value physical effort to varying degrees, and that these differences can be efficiently measured with the VoPE scale. We demonstrated reliability and validity of the VoPE scale across three datasets and its ability to predict self-reported sports and exercise behavior. The VoPE scale might thus extend our understanding of how people allocate (physical) effort.</p>
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Value of Physical Effort (VoPE) scale; sports and exercise; physical activity (PA); networks; forecasting and out-of-sample prediction; machine learning
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Exercise & Sports Psychology, Physical Activity
Ines Pfeffer ines.pfeffer@medicalschool-hamburg.de, Christoph Lindner christoph_lindner@psych.mpg.de, Thomas Mangin thomas.mangin@umontreal.ca, Darias Holgado darias.holgado@unil.ch, Silvio Maltagliati suggested: All my comments have been successfully addressed and I would like to congratulate the team of authors for their hard work on this captivating manuscript. No need for them to be recommenders of PCI Health & Mov Sci. Please do not suggest reviewers for whom there might be a conflict of interest. Reviewers are not allowed to review preprints written by close colleagues (with whom they have published in the last four years, with whom they have received joint funding in the last four years, or with whom they are currently writing a manuscript, or submitting a grant proposal), or by family members, friends, or anyone for whom bias might affect the nature of the review - see the code of conduct
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