Walking is popular among adults but is it pleasant? A framework for clarifying the link between walking and affect as illustrated in two studies
Walking is popular among adults but is it pleasant? A framework for clarifying the link between walking and affect as illustrated in two studies
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DOI：
10.1016/j.psychsport.2007.04.004
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发表时间：
2008-05-01
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Lind, Erik
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作者：
Ekkekakis, Panteleimon;Backhouse, Susan H.;Lind, Erik
目的：散步的流行被认为是由于这项活动是愉快的。然而，情感善行的证据仍然很少。相反，活动，包括步行，可能不会超过一定的强度和持续时间的阈值被认为缺乏足够的效力，以改善影响。为了期待旨在探索情感在介导步行与坚持关系中的作用的调查，我们提出并测试了一个澄清步行与情感联系的方法学平台。设计：随机实验组与对照组设计（研究I）和随机AB-vs-BA组设计（研究II）。方法：描述两项研究以说明所提出方法的实用性。影响被概念化为一个维度的结构和评估过程中和之后的walks.Results：短，自我节奏的步行增加自我报告的能量活跃的中年和老年adults.Conclusions：建议的框架可能是有用的步行影响坚持因果链的调查。(C)2007爱思唯尔有限公司保留所有权利。
Objectives: The popularity of walking is assumed to be due to this activity being pleasant. However, evidence of affective beneficence remains scarce. Instead, activities, including walking, that may not exceed certain thresholds of intensity and duration are presumed to lack sufficient potency to improve affect. In anticipation of investigations designed to explore the role of affect in mediating the walking-adherence relationship, we present and test a methodological platform for clarifying the walking-affect link.Design: Randomized experimental-vs-control group design (Study I) and randomized AB-vs-BA group design (Study II).Methods: Two studies are described to illustrate the utility of the proposed approach. Affect was conceptualized as a dimensional construct and assessed repeatedly during and after the walks.Results: Short, self-paced walks increase self-reported energy among active middle-aged and older adults.Conclusions: The proposed framework could be useful in investigations of the walkin-affect-adherence causal chain. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.