Run to paradise – The emotional response to an extended exercise session
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School of Health and Human Sciences, Southern Cross University, Australia
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School of Health and Human Sciences, Southern Cross University, Australia
Aim: Previous literature has shown that exercise of short to medium length can regulate mood; the literature has not, however, shown how a long exercise bout will affect mood. This gap in the literature has motivated the current study. Regular exercisers’ ability to regulate emotion is of growing significance given that mood disorders are playing an increasingly prominent role in mental health. Method: Previous studies have sought to determine which facets of mood exercise has influenced; this has resulted in mood being broken into positive, negative, and activated, or deactivated states. Accordingly, this study has adopted an Emotion Sampler which includes the four factored affective circumplex to explore how mood changes over the exercise session. The Emotion Sampler was given to participants before, at the midpoint, and finally after 75 minutes of an exercise bout, which allowed plotting of changes in the affective circumplex. Results: There was a significant positive change in activated positive mood, and a reduced level of both activated, and deactivated negative mood scales over the course of the 75-minute exercise. Results show that there is a significant main effect between gender in deactivated negative states, with males showing significantly higher results than females for this measure. Conclusion: These results indicate that exercise positively changes mood, even when longer bouts are used. These results additionally inform intervention techniques in the appropriate length of training for particular mood benefits and changes.
Keywords:
mood,
Exercise,
exercise psychology,
Affective circumplex,
emotion sampler
Conference:
15th Annual Psychology Honours Research Conference , Coffs Harbour, Australia, 4 Oct - 5 Oct, 2018.
Presentation Type:
Research
Topic:
Abstract for 15th Annual Psychology Honours Research Conference
Citation:
Hale
DP,
Hassmen
P and
Stevens
CJ
(2019). Run to paradise – The emotional response to an extended exercise session.
Front. Psychol.
Conference Abstract:
15th Annual Psychology Honours Research Conference .
doi: 10.3389/conf.fpsyg.2018.74.00018
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Received:
18 Sep 2018;
Published Online:
27 Sep 2019.
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Correspondence:
Mr. Darcy P Hale, School of Health and Human Sciences, Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia, d.hale.11@student.scu.edu.au