The Relationship Between Stress and Health Promoting Behaviors in Collegiate Female Student Athletes

Divin, Amanda L.; Hale, W. Daniel

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“…However, significant effects for level of study (postgraduate) were found on HR, showing that studying at postgraduate level is associated with higher levels of health responsibility. Results also showed that women have higher engagement in healthy eating and social interactions than men, as found in previous studies ( Stock et al, 2001 ; Von Bothmer and Fridlund, 2005 ; Divin, 2009 ; Wei et al, 2012 ; Panebianco-Warrens et al, 2015 ).…”

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“…When compared with normative data using the original scale ( Walker et al, 1988 ), differences were observed between the overall score, HR, IR, SG, and SM, with significantly lower scores in our sample of music students (Supplementary Table 3 ). Additional comparisons were made with the findings of previous studies of musicians and non-musicians of similar ages using one-sample t -tests and published mean values ( Divin, 2009 ; Kreutz et al, 2009 ; Wei et al, 2012 ; Panebianco-Warrens et al, 2015 ). Significant differences were observed for most subscales, although with inconsistent patterns.…”

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Fit to Perform: An Investigation of Higher Education Music Students’ Perceptions, Attitudes, and Behaviors toward Health

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Making music at the highest international standards can be rewarding, but it is also challenging, with research highlighting pernicious ways in which practicing and performing can affect performers’ health and wellbeing. Several studies indicate that music students’ perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors toward health and healthy living are less than optimal, especially considering the multiple physical and psychological demands of their day-to-day work. This article presents the results of a comprehensive screening protocol that investigated lifestyle and health-related attitudes and behaviors among 483 undergraduate and postgraduate students (mean age = 21.29 years ± 3.64; 59% women) from ten conservatoires. The protocol included questionnaires measuring wellbeing, general health, health-promoting behaviors, perfectionism, coping, sleep quality, and fatigue. On each measure, the data were compared with existing published data from similar age groups. The results indicate that music students have higher levels of wellbeing and lower fatigue than comparable samples outside of music. However, they also reveal potentially harmful perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors toward health. Specifically, engagement in health responsibility and stress management was low, which along with high perfectionistic strivings, limited use of coping strategies, poor sleep quality, and low self-rated health, paints a troubling picture both for the music students and for those who support their training. The findings point to the need for more (and more effective) health education and promotion initiatives within music education; in particular, musicians should be better equipped with mental skills to cope with constant pressure to excel and high stress levels. In part, this calls for musicians themselves to engage in healthier lifestyles, take greater responsibility for their own health, and be aware of and act upon health information in order to achieve and sustain successful practice and performance. For that to happen, however, music educators, administrators, and policy makers must play an active role in providing supportive environments where health and wellbeing is considered integral to expert music training.

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Fit to Perform: An Investigation of Higher Education Music Students’ Perceptions, Attitudes, and Behaviors toward Health

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“…The majority of studies ( n = 123, 72.8 %) provide evidence that psychological stress predicts lesser PA or exercise. Nevertheless, correlations of stress and exercise in studies supporting the association typically find no relationship greater than –0.28 to –0.42 [89, 143, 202-204]. Conversely, 29 (17.2 %) studies provide evidence of an increase in PA with stress.…”

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“…When examining specific age groups, it is apparent that the results replicate for college-aged and young adults [180, 202, 203, 229-231], middle-aged adults [143, 167, 232, 233], and the elderly [195, 234-237], but no cross-sectional data exist for children and only qualitative data exist for adolescents [171]. The relationship has been found for both genders, although several studies found that men were more vulnerable than women [194, 229, 237, 238], while other studies observed the opposite trend [202, 239, 240]. Stress also was related to lesser PA in several minority populations [177, 195, 198, 219, 241], and ethnicity/race may interact with stress on PA [207, 242].…”

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“…However, there appears to be no moderating effect of age or education [196]. The associations appear to be true for reports of exercise [243-245], PA measures [202, 203], sedentary behavior/inactivity [170, 195, 197, 209, 230, 246, 247] and days of sports participation [171, 248], but little data exist for energy expenditure [249]. Stress is linked to low levels of PA in chronically stressed populations, such as military spouses [196], cancer survivors and those in treatment [182, 243, 250], low-income and first-time mothers [172, 173, 251], medical school students [229, 252] and caregivers [239, 240, 253-257].…”

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The Effects of Stress on Physical Activity and Exercise

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Background Psychological stress and physical activity (PA) are believed to be reciprocally related; however, most research examining the relationship between these constructs is devoted to the study of exercise and/or PA as an instrument to mitigate distress. Objective The aim of this paper was to review the literature investigating the influence of stress on indicators of PA and exercise. Methods A systematic search of Web of Science, Pub-Med, and SPORTDiscus was employed to find all relevant studies focusing on human participants. Search terms included “stress”, “exercise”, and “physical activity”. A rating scale (0–9) modified for this study was utilized to assess the quality of all studies with multiple time points. Results The literature search found 168 studies that examined the influence of stress on PA. Studies varied widely in their theoretical orientation and included perceived stress, distress, life events, job strain, role strain, and work–family conflict but not lifetime cumulative adversity. To more clearly address the question, prospective studies (n = 55) were considered for further review, the majority of which indicated that psychological stress predicts less PA (behavioral inhibition) and/or exercise or more sedentary behavior (76.4 %). Both objective (i.e., life events) and subjective (i.e., distress) measures of stress related to reduced PA. Prospective studies investigating the effects of objective markers of stress nearly all agreed (six of seven studies) that stress has a negative effect on PA. This was true for research examining (a) PA at periods of objectively varying levels of stress (i.e., final examinations vs. a control time point) and (b) chronically stressed populations (e.g., caregivers, parents of children with a cancer diagnosis) that were less likely to be active than controls over time. Studies examining older adults (>50 years), cohorts with both men and women, and larger sample sizes (n > 100) were more likely to show an inverse association. 85.7 % of higher-quality prospective research (≥7 on a 9-point scale) showed the same trend. Interestingly, some prospective studies (18.2 %) report evidence that PA was positively impacted by stress (behavioral activation). This should not be surprising as some individuals utilize exercise to cope with stress. Several other factors may moderate stress and PA relationships, such as stages of change for exercise. Habitually active individuals exercise more in the face of stress, and those in beginning stages exercise less. Consequently, stress may have a differential impact on exercise adoption, maintenance, and relapse. Preliminary evidence suggests that combining stress management programming with exercise interventions may allay stress-related reductions in PA, though rigorous testing of these techniques has yet to be produced. Conclusions Overall, the majority of the literature finds that the experience of stress impairs efforts to be physically active. Future work should center on the development of a theory explaining the...

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Depression among Athlete Students and Differences by Gender at Physical Education of Bengkulu University in 2022

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Nopiyanto

2023

J. Ilm. Pendidik. Jasm

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The Indonesia National Adolescent Mental Health Survey (I-NAMHS), over a third of all adolescents (34.9%) reported a mental health problem, with depression in third position in mental health problems (5.3%). High levels of physical activity and low sedentary behavior of athlete students have been associated with improved self-concept and reduced mental health problems, such as depression. As a result, depression has received little attention in this population. To describe the prevalence of symptoms of depression among athlete students at a single university. This cross-sectional study was administered to undergraduate students enrolled in physical education, faculty of teacher training, and education at the University of Bengkulu. Participants (n=70) completed the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) and a demographic questionnaire. Differences in symptoms of depression were calculated by gender. The prevalence of symptoms of depression, as measured on BDI-II, was 36%, and there is no significant gender difference in the prevalence of symptoms of depression (p>0.05, distributed between male and female participants (52% women and 24.4% men). The BDI-II identified the prevalence of symptoms of depression among athlete students. The symptoms of depression in female students were higher than in male students.

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The Relationship Between Stress and Health Promoting Behaviors in Collegiate Female Student Athletes

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Fit to Perform: An Investigation of Higher Education Music Students’ Perceptions, Attitudes, and Behaviors toward Health

Fit to Perform: An Investigation of Higher Education Music Students’ Perceptions, Attitudes, and Behaviors toward Health

The Effects of Stress on Physical Activity and Exercise

Depression among Athlete Students and Differences by Gender at Physical Education of Bengkulu University in 2022

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