Enhancement of psychological effects by exercise

本研究的目的是编制运动和体力活动的特定情感量表。在运动心理学领域，研究人员使用POMS和STAI等心理测量工具来考察运动过程中的情绪或情绪等心理变化。然而，在运动或体力活动研究中，使用这种测量方法是否适合检测与运动相关的心理变化，一直存在疑问。其中一个原因是，这些措施将运动相关的反应识别为负面影响症状。例如，运动或体力活动伴随着高唤醒，如血压和心率的增加。该指标将焦虑症的项目列为增加的项目。因此，需要专门的情感量表来阐明运动或身体活动对心理的影响。我们开发了早稻田运动耐久活动情感量表(早稻田)。早稻田由消极情绪、热情和放松三个子量表组成。每个分量表有4个项目。实验证明，该量表具有较高的信度和效度，可用于检验各种运动的心理效应。期望将其应用于改善心理健康，为今后运动处方的规划提供依据。

The purpose of this study was to develop the specific affect scale for exercise and physical activity. Researchers have used the psychological measures such as POMS and STAI to examine psychological changes such as affect or mood during exercise in the area of Exercise Psychology. However, it has been questionable whether the use of such measures is suitable to detect exercise-related psychological changes in exercise or physical activity research. One of the reasons is that such measures identify exercise-related responses as negative affect symptoms. For example, exercise or physical activity is accompanied with high arousal such as increases of blood pressure and heart rate. The measures score such increases as anxiety's items. Therefore, the specific affect scale has been needed to clarify the psychological effects of exercise or physical activity.We developed the Waseda Affect Scale of Exercise and Durable Activity (WASEDA) .The WASEDA consists of 3 subscales : negative affect, enthusiasm, and relaxation. Each subscale has 4 items. It has been demonstrated by some experiments that this scale has high reliability and validity and that it can be used to examine psychological effects of various types of exercise. We would expect to apply it to improve mental health for planning exercise prescription in the future.