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How does exercising make you feel? The associations between positive and negative affect, life satisfaction, self-esteem, and vitality
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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between
regular physical exercise and affective responses to the behaviour,
and to investigate the relationship with life satisfaction, self-esteem,
and vitality. In total, 264 Portuguese exercisers (female = 157) aged
between 18 and 69 years (M = 12.93; SD = 1.49) were considered for
analysis in this study. Participants were regular exercisers with a
mean year experience of 5.73 (SD = 3.19). Looking at the results,
the structural model displayed acceptable fit to the data: χ2
(314)
= 515.904; p < .001; CFI = .928; TLI = .919; RMSEA .049 [.042, .057].
Overall, significant direct effects were found as theoretically
proposed, namely: exercise frequency displayed a positive and
significant association with positive affect; positive affect was
positively associated with life satisfaction, self-esteem, and
subjective vitality; and, negative affect was negatively correlated
with life satisfaction, self-esteem, and subjective vitality. Exercise
frequency had a positive and significant indirect effect on life
satisfaction, self-esteem, and subjective vitality via positive affect,
but not via negative affect.
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Keywords
exercise affects life satisfaction self-esteem subjective vitality
Citation
Rodrigues,F.; Faustino,T. ;Santos, A. ;Teixeira, E.; Luís Cid & Monteiro,D. (2021) How does exercising make you feel? The associations between positive and negative affect, life satisfaction, self-esteem, and vitality, International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, DOI: 10.1080/1612197X.2021.1907766
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International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology