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Everyday stress components and physical activity: examining reactivity, recovery and pileup
- Source :
- Journal of behavioral medicine, vol 43, iss 1
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- The experience of naturally-occurring stress in daily life has been linked with lower physical activity levels. However, most of this evidence comes from general and static reports of stress. Less is known how different temporal components of everyday stress interfere with physical activity. In a coordinated secondary analysis of data from two studies of adults, we used intensive, micro-longitudinal assessments (ecological momentary assessments, EMA) to investigate how distinct components of everyday stress, that is, reactivity to stressor events, recovery from stressor events, and pileup of stressor events and responses predict physical activity. Results showed that components of everyday stress predicted subsequent physical activity especially for indicators of stress pileup. In both studies, the accumulation of stress responses over the previous 12h was more predictive of subsequent physical activity than current stress reactivity or recovery responses. Results are compared to the effects of general measures of perceived stress that showed an opposite pattern of results. The novel everyday stress approach used here may be fruitful for generating new insights into physical activity specifically and health behaviors in general.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Ecological Momentary Assessment
Physical activity
Stress
Basic Behavioral and Social Science
Medical and Health Sciences
Developmental psychology
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
0302 clinical medicine
Clinical Research
2.3 Psychological
Secondary analysis
Stress (linguistics)
Behavioral and Social Science
Everyday stress
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Reactivity (psychology)
Exercise
General Psychology
030505 public health
Smokers
Prevention
Stressor
Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
Psychiatry and Mental health
Health psychology
Clinical Psychology
Psychological
Female
social and economic factors
0305 other medical science
Psychology
Stress reactivity
Stress, Psychological
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15733521
- Volume :
- 43
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of behavioral medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e710ff35fa8fb4c0fc15b557a2741cd8