Affective and cognitive predictors of affective response to exercise: Examining unique and overlapping variance
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Participants
Healthy young adults (N = 69) enrolled in the study. Participants were recruited from classes in the psychology department of a private university. The mean age was 20.4 (SD = 2.4) years, with a range of 18–30 years. The mean body mass index (BMI) was 22.5 (SD = 3.3), with a range of 16.4–33.8 kg. The majority of participants (78%) were female. Most (61%) of the participants were Caucasian, 19% were Hispanic, 15% were Asian, 9% were African American, and 15% were of another race. The sample
Descriptive statistics
Descriptive statistics for all the study variables are presented in Table 1 and the inter-correlations between the affective and cognitive factors as well as the FS responses are presented in Table 2. The mean FS responses over the study session are presented in Fig. 1. As seen in the figure, the mean FS responses were similar at post-warm up and at 5, 10, 15, and 20 min (average intercorrelation = 0.76). Therefore, during exercise affective response was operationalized as the average of the FS
Discussion
This is the first study to systematically examine the predictive associations between various affective and cognitive factors and affective response to exercise. We found that both anticipated affect variables (regret, pride) and anticipatory affect variables (attitudes, associations) account for unique, independent aspects of affective response during exercise. Anticipatory affect accounted for unique variance in affective response immediately post-exercise, but none of the affective or
Funding
This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
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