A predictive model of behaviour and well-being among participants in aquatic exercise

Abstract

The objective of this study was to determine whether there is a predictive accuracy between water activity practitioners through the passion of the monitor, the autonomy support, psychological mediators, self-determinate motivation and, as final consequence, the psychological well-being and exercise rate. The sample consisted of 337 practitioners from 18 to 84 years (M = 47.50, SD = 15.66), engaged in an aquatic program done in a Spanish city. The analysis’s results of the structural model regression established that support of autonomy and the harmonious passion predicted positively the psychological mediators; these predicted positively the self-determinate motivation, that predicted positively the exercise rate and psychological well-being. A climate created by technical aquatic with a facility methodology, with a harmonious passion and support toward autonomy’s practitioners, could be decisive for the satisfaction of the psychological mediators, and thus increased a self-determinate motivation that would increase the practice of physical exercise and improvement your well-being.