TY - JOUR
T1 - Exercise environment, self-efficacy, and affective responses to acute exercise in older adults
AU - McAuley, Edward
AU - Blissmer, Bryan
AU - Katula, Jeffrey
AU - Duncan, Terry E.
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by a grant from the National Institute on Aging (#AG-12113).
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - Increasing evidence suggests that regular physical activity can have considerable psychological, as well as physical, benefits in the elderly. Although factors such as exercise dosage may be implicated in exercise-induced affect responses, it has also been suggested that social and psychological factors might influence this relationship. This study examined the roles played by exercise environment (group versus alone) and self-efficacy in affective change in 80 older adults (M age = 66 yrs) over the course of three acute exercise bouts. Using latent growth curve methodology and statistically controlling for duration and intensity of exercise, we were able to demonstrate that social (group) environments resulted in statistically significant improvements in feeling state responses when contrasted with a condition in which the participants exercised alone. In addition, increases in self-efficacy were associated with more positive and less negative feeling states. Environmental factors that might influence the exercise-affect response are discussed and recommendations for subsequent exercise, efficacy, affect research made.
AB - Increasing evidence suggests that regular physical activity can have considerable psychological, as well as physical, benefits in the elderly. Although factors such as exercise dosage may be implicated in exercise-induced affect responses, it has also been suggested that social and psychological factors might influence this relationship. This study examined the roles played by exercise environment (group versus alone) and self-efficacy in affective change in 80 older adults (M age = 66 yrs) over the course of three acute exercise bouts. Using latent growth curve methodology and statistically controlling for duration and intensity of exercise, we were able to demonstrate that social (group) environments resulted in statistically significant improvements in feeling state responses when contrasted with a condition in which the participants exercised alone. In addition, increases in self-efficacy were associated with more positive and less negative feeling states. Environmental factors that might influence the exercise-affect response are discussed and recommendations for subsequent exercise, efficacy, affect research made.
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U2 - 10.1080/08870440008401997
DO - 10.1080/08870440008401997
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0001640035
SN - 0887-0446
VL - 15
SP - 341
EP - 355
JO - Psychology and Health
JF - Psychology and Health
IS - 3
ER -