The Relationship Between Enjoyment and Affective Responses to Exercise

Prevalence and correlates of exercise motivated by negative affect

“…McGowan, Talton and Thompson 19 found similar changes after a weight lifting class in college students. Raedeke 20 also found these changes in affect after an exercise session and further found that exercise enjoyment moderated changes in positive affect but was unrelated to changes in negative affect. In another study, smoking-specific weight concerns were found to moderate the association between exercise and negative affect among women who were quitting smoking.…”

Physical activity and depression: A multiple mediation analysis

“…Part of our intention behind including the EFI measure in this study was to capture feelings states directly associated with physical activity, but we now suggest that measures of enjoyment may be more appropriate. Evidence suggests that enjoyment is conceptually distinct from PA (Raedeke, 2007) and White (2008) hypothesises that enjoyment may mediate PA responses.…”

“…Bartholomew and Miller (2002) found that people's perceptions of their physical activity performance were associated with improvement in positive but not negative valenced mood states after physical activity, providing support for our post-hoc finding. Furthermore, evidence suggests that PA may be more sensitive than NA to other aspects of the psychosocial context of physical activity, including enjoyment (Raedeke, 2007). It is therefore possible that PA might be more influenced by people's immediate experiences within the physical activity situation than NA (Raedeke, 2007).…”

Componentes mental y físico en universitarios con obesidad

“…No obstante, la mayoría de los mencionados estudios han evaluado esta relación después de una sola sesión de ejercicio [25,26]. En esta investigación se incluyeron los componentes físico y mental en población joven con obesidad, la cual fue evaluada después de 12 semanas de intervención física.…”