Affective Responses to Exercise

Ekkekakis, Panteleimon; Hartman, Mark E.; Ladwig, Matthew A.

doi:10.1002/9781119568124.ch12

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“…First, it was impossible to measure affective states multiple times during the exercise class as this would have meant a serious disruption of the flow of participants. We conclude that we were not able to detect dynamic changes in affect during exercise-although being aware that it would be desirable for future research (for recommendations regarding the timing of affect assessment see Ekkekakis et al, 2020). The affect assessment at the end of the class and the difference variable (after minus before) might therefore not reveal the true and differentiated affective response.…”

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(How) Does Affect Influence the Formation of Habits in Exercise?

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Objectives: Habitually instigated exercise is thought to increase health behavior maintenance. Previous research has explored several aspects of habit formation. However, there is a lack of longitudinal research investigating affective determinants, especially post-exercise affective states. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate (a) if behavior frequency will enhance automaticity, (b) if positive affect will enhance automaticity, and (c) if positive affect will moderate the relationship between behavior frequency and automaticity. Methods: 226 participants (64% females, mean age 24 years) who attended weekly sports and gym classes at two universities were followed for 13 weeks. Class attendance was documented on a weekly basis (behavior frequency) during the semester. Before, during and immediately after each class, participants filled in the Feeling Scale (affective valence). Furthermore, at the beginning of each class, they answered a question about their automaticity in arriving at the decision to attend the class (instigation habit). We used a two-level modeling approach to predict subsequent automaticity by the different constructs at the previous attendance. Results: The cumulative frequency of prior class attendance did not significantly enhance the automaticity of the decision to re-attend the class. There were significant effects of valence on automaticity on the between-subject level, i.e., a one-point higher mean valence score was associated with a 0.62 point increase in automaticity (p = 0.001). No moderation effects of affect on the association between behavior frequency and automaticity were observed. Conclusion: Behavior repetition, albeit not significant, and positive affective states at the end of an exercise class may be beneficial in building exercise instigation habits. Practitioners and researchers alike may thus want to emphasize the importance of behavior repetition and affective response for health behavior maintenance.

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(How) Does Affect Influence the Formation of Habits in Exercise?

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“…While exercisers are assumed to engage regular physical activity mostly for self-determined reasons and motives (Rodrigues et al, 2020), we could assume that being active is important to them and that this could explain mostly greater experience of positive affect and less negative affect. The present study expands the area of affective responses to exercise research and complements previous literature (Ekkekakis et al, 2020) by investigating how exercisers' positive and negative affect could be associated with indicators of well-being like life satisfaction, selfesteem, and subjective vitality. This knowledge may guide fitness instructors in their intervention during training sessions making them aware of the importance of the affect fostered in their fitness classes.…”

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“…Subjective vitality is conceptualised as the state of feeling alive and having energy available to the self (Ryan & Deci, 2001). Much of the impetus for examining the correlates of positive/negative affect comes from the association of positive wellbeing with health, and the research literature showing that psychological well-being is related to better health is growing (Ekkekakis et al, 2020). There is evidence that positive affect is associated with greater experience of subjective vitality (Couto et al, 2017).…”

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How does exercising make you feel? The associations between positive and negative affect, life satisfaction, self-esteem, and vitality

Rodrigues

Faustino²,

Santos

et al. 2021

International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology

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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between regular physical exercise and affective responses to the behaviour, and to investigate the relationship with life satisfaction, self-esteem, and vitality. In total, 264 Portuguese exercisers (female = 157) aged between 18 and 69 years (M = 12.93; SD = 1.49) were considered for analysis in this study. Participants were regular exercisers with a mean year experience of 5.73 (SD = 3.19). Looking at the results, the structural model displayed acceptable fit to the data: χ 2 (314) = 515.904; p < .001; CFI = .928; TLI = .919; RMSEA .049 [.042, .057]. Overall, significant direct effects were found as theoretically proposed, namely: exercise frequency displayed a positive and significant association with positive affect; positive affect was positively associated with life satisfaction, self-esteem, and subjective vitality; and, negative affect was negatively correlated with life satisfaction, self-esteem, and subjective vitality. Exercise frequency had a positive and significant indirect effect on life satisfaction, self-esteem, and subjective vitality via positive affect, but not via negative affect.

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“…It is only if young people enjoy practising their sport, that they will engage in self-determined forms of behavioural regulation (Ryan and Deci 2017) and maintain physical activity behaviours. Enthusiasm is as important as perseverance in eff ective sports training (Ekkekakis et al 2020;Ekkekakis, Hargreaves, and Par tt 2013). This research has shown the importance of fostering this enthusiasm clearly.…”

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Are there Tourists Amongst us? A Participant-Centred Appraisal of an International Competitive Football Tournament in Malta

Spiteri

Muscat

2020

McAst Journal of Applied Research &Amp; Practice

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In Malta, there is an active history of both governmental and non-governmental organisations who strive to organise a variety of sports activities. Often, participation in sport, particularly among young persons, is seen as a means to enhancing participants' emotional self-regulation, self-esteem, and problem-solving capabilities, although it is also used as a crime-prevention strategy particularly in neighbourhoods which are characterised by crime and anti-social behaviour. This paper explores what football players, their coaches, and other officials who accompanied the young participants in an international football tournament, specifically the Union of European Football Association (UEFA) Under-17 tournament, believe they derived from this tournament. It also explores the manner in which different teams and cultures portray themselves, and the wider social and cultural influences that are believed to have a bearing on their perceptions. The paper is of particular interest to people who operate in the field of youth tourism since it promotes a greater understanding of the outcomes (personal, social, economic, etc.) that both local and foreign players, participating in a football tournament of international importance perceive as outcomes.

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Affective Responses to Exercise

Cited by 20 publications

References 141 publications

(How) Does Affect Influence the Formation of Habits in Exercise?

(How) Does Affect Influence the Formation of Habits in Exercise?

How does exercising make you feel? The associations between positive and negative affect, life satisfaction, self-esteem, and vitality

Are there Tourists Amongst us? A Participant-Centred Appraisal of an International Competitive Football Tournament in Malta

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