Attunement with Exercise Scale (AwE)

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Chapter 10 - Attunement with Exercise Scale (AwE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 November 2025

Rachel M. Calogero ,

Tracy L. Tylka and

Katarina L. Huellemann

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Virginia Ramseyer Winter ,

Tracy L. Tylka and

Antoinette M. Landor

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Virginia Ramseyer Winter: Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
Tracy L. Tylka: Affiliation:
Ohio State University
Antoinette M. Landor: Affiliation:
University of Missouri

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The 10-item Attunement with Exercise Scale (AwE; Calogero et al., 2024) assesses the extent to which a person’s physical activity experiences reflect joy and connection with their body and safety during exercise. The AwE can be administered online and/or in-person to adolescents and/or adults and is free to use in any setting. This chapter first discusses the development of the AwE and then provides evidence of its psychometrics. More specifically, the AwE has been found to have a 3-factor structure within exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses and has demonstrated invariance between women and men. Internal consistency reliability, test-retest reliability, convergent validity, discriminant validity, and incremental validity support the use of the AwE. Next, this chapter provides the AwE items in their entirety, instructions for administering the AwE to participants, the item response scale, and the scoring procedure. Logistics of use, such as permissions, copyright, and contact information, are provided for readers.

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Attunement with Exercise Scale AwE items exercise attunement joy process safety scale development psychometric evidence factor structure reliability validity administration scoring

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Information: Handbook of Body Image-Related Measures , pp. 30 - 32

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009398275.011 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2025

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