Weekly Exercise Consistently Reinstates Positive Mood

1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 271-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Steinberg ◽  
Briony R. Nicholls ◽  
Elizabeth A. Sykes ◽  
N. LeBoutillier ◽  
Nerina Ramlakhan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Exercise ◽  
Negative Mood ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Positive Mood ◽  
Field Investigation ◽  
Single Bout ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Exercise Class ◽  
Negative Feelings ◽  
Over Time

Mood improvement immediately after a single bout of exercise is well documented, but less is known about successive and longer term effects. In a “real-life” field investigation, four kinds of exercise class (Beginners, Advanced, Body Funk and Callanetics) met once a week for up to 7 weeks. Before and after each class the members assessed how they felt by completing a questionnaire listing equal numbers of “positive” and “negative” mood words. Subjects who had attended at least five times were included in the analysis, which led to groups consisting of 18, 20, 16, and 16 subjects, respectively. All four kinds of exercise significantly increased positive and decreased negative feelings, and this result was surprisingly consistent in successive weeks. However, exercise seemed to have a much greater effect on positive than on negative moods. The favorable moods induced by each class seemed to have worn off by the following week, to be reinstated by the class itself. In the Callanetics class, positive mood also improved significantly over time. The Callanetics class involved “slower,” more demanding exercises, not always done to music. The Callanetics and Advanced classes also showed significantly greater preexercise negative moods in the first three sessions. However, these differences disappeared following exercise. Possibly, these two groups had become more “tolerant” to the mood-enhancing effects of physical exercise; this may be in part have been due to “exercise addiction.”

scholarly journals Happy Believers and Sad Skeptics? Affective Influences on Gullibility

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 306-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph P. Forgas
Keyword(s):  
Negative Mood ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Positive Mood ◽  
Stimulus Information ◽  
Misleading Information ◽  
Mood Effects ◽  
Detection Of Deception ◽  
Series Of Experiments ◽  
Affective Influences ◽  
Practical Implications

How does affect influence gullibility? After a brief consideration of the nature of gullibility, I describe a series of experiments that explored the prediction that in situations in which close attention to stimulus information is required, negative mood can reduce gullibility and positive mood can increase gullibility. The experiments examined mood effects on truth judgments, vulnerability to misleading information, the tendency to uncritically accept interpersonal messages, the detection of deception, and the tendency to see meaning in random or meaningless information. In all of these domains, positive mood promoted gullibility and negative mood reduced it. The practical and theoretical significance of these convergent findings are discussed, and the practical implications of affectively induced gullibility in real-life domains are considered.

scholarly journals Physical exercise increases perceived musical pleasure: Modulatory roles of arousal, mood, or dopamine?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J Hove ◽  
Steven A. Martinez ◽  
Samantha R. Shorrock
Keyword(s):  
Physical Exercise ◽  
Exercise Performance ◽  
Positive Mood ◽  
Music Listening ◽  
Control Session ◽  
Eye Blink ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Subjective Arousal

Music’s ability to influence exercise performance is well known, but the converse, how exercise influences music listening, remains largely unknown. Exercise can elevate arousal, mood, and neurotransmitters including dopamine, which are involved in musical pleasure. Here we examine how exercise influences music enjoyment, and test for a modulatory role of arousal, mood, and dopamine. Before and after exercise (12 min of vigorous running) and a rest control session, participants (n=20) listened to music clips and rated their enjoyment and subjective arousal; we also collected mood ratings and eye-blink rates, an established predictor of dopamine activity. Ratings of musical enjoyment increased significantly after running, but not after the rest control condition. While changes in subjective arousal ratings did not differ between run and rest days, change in subjective arousal correlated with change in music enjoyment. After running, the change in music enjoyment had a positive but non-significant correlation with change in eye- blink rates (r=.36). Positive mood increased more after exercise than after the rest control session, but the change in positive mood did not correlate with change in music enjoyment. In sum, exercise leads to increased musical pleasure, and this effect was related to changes in arousal.

Health Benefits of Walking in Nature: A Randomized Controlled Study Under Conditions of Real-Life Stress

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 248-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gunnthora Olafsdottir ◽  
Paul Cloke ◽  
André Schulz ◽  
Zoé van Dyck ◽  
Thor Eysteinsson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Exercise ◽  
Life Stress ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Controlled Study ◽  
Psychophysiological Responses ◽  
Randomized Controlled ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Cortisol Levels ◽  
Nature Scenes ◽  
Laboratory Stressor

We investigated the effects of recreational exposure to the natural environment on mood and psychophysiological responses to stress. We hypothesized that walking in nature has restorative effects over and above the effects of exposure to nature scenes (viewing nature on TV) or physical exercise alone (walking on a treadmill in a gym) and that these effects are greater when participants were expected to be more stressed. Healthy university students ( N = 90) were randomly allocated to one of three conditions and tested during an exam-free period and again during their exam time. Mood and psychophysiological responses were assessed before and after the interventions, and again after a laboratory stressor. All interventions had restorative effects on cortisol levels ( p < .001), yet walking in nature resulted in lower cortisol levels than did nature viewing ( p < .05) during the exam period. Walking in nature improved mood more than watching nature scenes ( p < .001) or physical exercise alone ( p < .05).

Evaluating mood check-ins to promote engagement in mobile app-based mindfulness meditation (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Huberty ◽  
Jeni Green ◽  
Megan Puzia ◽  
Chad Stecher
Keyword(s):  
Mindfulness Meditation ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Negative Mood ◽  
Cumulative Effect ◽  
Positive Mood ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Rate Of Change ◽  
Behavioral Strategies ◽  
Specific Effects ◽  
Before And After

BACKGROUND Mindfulness meditation smartphone applications (apps) are popular apps to improve mental health but lack evidence-based behavioral strategies to encourage adherence. In October 2019, the Calm mindfulness meditation app introduced a mood check-in feature, but its effects on user adherence have yet to be tested. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to test whether a mood check-in feature within the Calm app improves adherence to app-based meditation practice. METHODS This was a retrospective longitudinal analysis of usage data from a random sample of first-time subscribers to the Calm app (N=2,600) who joined in summer 2018 or summer 2019. Regression analyses were used to compare the rate of change in meditation behavior before and after the introduction of mood check-ins and to estimate how pervious usage of mood check-ins predicted individuals’ future meditation behavior. Additional regression models examined the specific effects of prior mood check-ins containing a positively versus negatively rated mood. RESULTS Controlling for usage during the eight weeks prior and to usage trends among 2018 subscribers, the cumulative effect of eight weeks of mood check-ins was an estimated increase of approximately one meditation session. Positive mood check-ins during the previous week increase the odds of meditation by 1.224, but negative mood check-ins were not associated with future meditation behavior. CONCLUSIONS Using mood check-ins increases meditation participation and the likelihood of meditation particularly for positive mood check-ins. Mobile apps should consider incorporating mood check-ins to sustain behavior or increase adherence but more research is warranted.

Whether you are smart or kind depends on how I feel: The influence of positive and negative mood on agency and communion perception

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 434-443
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Szymkow
Keyword(s):  
Information Theory ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Negative Mood ◽  
Positive Mood ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Independent Source ◽  
Systematic Processing ◽  
Agency And Communion ◽  
Positive Feelings ◽  
Negative Feelings

Abstract Feelings-as-information theory states that feelings inform us about the nature of our current situation and we rely on them to make our judgments. Beyond that, feelings tune our cognitive processes to meet situational requirements. Positive feelings result in relying on pre-existing knowledge structures and default strategies, whereas negative feelings hamper relying on routines and results in adapting systematic processing. Based on this premise, it was hypothesized that positive mood, elicited either by the perceived target or by the independent source, would lead to relying on accessible agentic or communal content in perceiving strangers, as well as familiar others, whereas negative mood would weaken these tendencies. Specifically, the three studies showed initial evidence that (a) positive mood leads to focusing on agencyrelated qualities in perception of unknown men to a greater extent than negative mood, (b) positive mood leads to focusing on communion-related qualities in perception of unknown women more than negative mood, and(c) positive mood leads to relying on communal content in perception of familiar others comparing to negative mood.

scholarly journals Comparison on the Effect of Doing Exercise, Listening to Music and Taking Quiet Rest on Mood Changes

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-44
Author(s):  
Eric C.K. TSANG
Keyword(s):  
Instrumental Music ◽  
Mood State ◽  
Negative Mood ◽  
Positive Mood ◽  
Exercise Group ◽  
School Students ◽  
Mood Change ◽  
Mood Changes ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Group B

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in English; abstract also in Chinese. This study compared the effect of doing exercise, listening to music and taking quiet rest on mood changes. Three hundred and thirty seven secondary school students participated in this study. They were randomly assigned to three groups: (a) aerobic exercise group; (b) light instrumental music group; and (c) quiet rest group. All participants were administered with the Profile Of Mood State (POMS; Grove & Prapavessis, 1992) before and after the thirty minutes activity. It was found that both doing exercise and listening to music were effective in resulting a mood change by lowering the negative mood state. Participants after doing exercise reported a significant increase in positive mood. Conversely, participants after taking a quiet rest reported an increase in negative mood. It was concluded that doing exercise was most effective to achieve a positive mood change, yet, for those non-exercisers, listening to music could also induce positive psychological changes. 此研究是比較進行運動，聆聽音樂，及靜坐，對情緒的影響。三百三十七位参與測試的中學生，隨機分為三組，(a) 帶氧運動組，(b) 聆聽輕音樂組，及 (c)靜坐組。實驗進行三十分鐘，各参加者在實驗前及後都以Profile Of Mood State(POMS; Grove & Prapavessis, 1992) 作答，以探討他們的情緒變化；研究顯示進行運動及聆聽音樂，都能有效降低負面情緒，而進行運動者在正面情緒方面，更有明顯提升; 反而，靜坐組顯示在實驗後負面情緒有明顯上升，此研究作出結論，進行運動對改善情緒最為有效，但聆聽音樂對非運動愛好者，亦能改善心理狀况。

scholarly journals Effect of training session on mood state responses in athletes of wheelchair basketball team

1989 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laise Carolina Ramos Oliveira ◽  
◽  
André Lucas Moraes ◽  
Veronica Volski Mattes ◽  
Gabriela Dal´Maz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Disability ◽  
Mood State ◽  
Negative Mood ◽  
Training Session ◽  
Positive Mood ◽  
Wheelchair Basketball ◽  
Male Athletes ◽  
Before And After ◽  
State Responses ◽  
Test For Normality

The assessment of mood state can be used as a tool for monitoring the training adaptation. However, to athletes with a physical disability, this tool is still a few explored, especially in training daily conditions. The aim of the study was to analyze the mood state during training sessions in wheelchair basketball athletes. Twelve male athletes, aged between 23 and 62 years old, were evaluated. The subjects answered the POMS questionnaire before and after five training sessions during the preparatory period. Shapiro Wilk test for normality and Friedman were used for comparison amongst sessions, adopting p<0.05. It was found that the athletes presented a positive mood profile (iceberg) during the analyzed period. A negative mood reduction and positive mood maintenance were observed after all training sessions. Therefore, the results indicate that the training sessions can decrease the negative mood dimension, especially the depression and anger in wheelchair basketball athletes.

On the Individual

1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 205-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Magnusson
Keyword(s):  
School Psychologist ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Developmental Research ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Over Time

A description of two cases from my time as a school psychologist in the middle of the 1950s forms the background to the following question: Has anything important happened since then in psychological research to help us to a better understanding of how and why individuals think, feel, act, and react as they do in real life and how they develop over time? The studies serve as a background for some general propositions about the nature of the phenomena that concerns us in developmental research, for a summary description of the developments in psychological research over the last 40 years as I see them, and for some suggestions about future directions.

The Role of Gender and Sensation Seeking in Film Choice

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 97-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Smita C. Banerjee ◽  
Kathryn Greene ◽  
Marina Krcmar ◽  
Zhanna Bagdasarov ◽  
Dovile Ruginyte
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Negative Mood ◽  
Positive Mood ◽  
The United States ◽  
High Arousal ◽  
Subject Design ◽  
Happy Mood

This study demonstrates the significance of individual difference factors, particularly gender and sensation seeking, in predicting media choice (examined through hypothetical descriptions of films that participants anticipated they would view). This study used a 2 (Positive mood/negative mood) × 2 (High arousal/low arousal) within-subject design with 544 undergraduate students recruited from a large northeastern university in the United States. Results showed that happy films and high arousal films were preferred over sad films and low-arousal films, respectively. In terms of gender differences, female viewers reported a greater preference than male viewers for happy-mood films. Also, male viewers reported a greater preference for high-arousal films compared to female viewers, and female viewers reported a greater preference for low-arousal films compared to male viewers. Finally, high sensation seekers reported a preference for high-arousal films. Implications for research design and importance of exploring media characteristics are discussed.

STORYTELLING AND MEANING RECONSTRUCTION: A METAPHORICAL PERSPECTIVE

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-169
Author(s):  
M L Mojapelo
Keyword(s):  
Personal Development ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Meaning Reconstruction ◽  
Changing Patterns ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

Storytelling consists of an interaction between a narrator and a listener, both of whom assign meaning to the story as a whole and its component parts. The meaning assigned to the narrative changes over time under the influence of the recipient‟s changing precepts and perceptions which seem to be simplistic in infancy and more nuanced with age. It becomes more philosophical in that themes touching on the more profound questions of human existence tend to become more prominently discernible as the subject moves into the more reflective or summative phases of his or her existence. The aim of this article is to demonstrate the metaphorical character of a story, as reflected in changing patterns of meaning assigned to the narrative in the course of the subjective receiver‟s passage through the various stages of life. This was done by analysing meaning, from a particular storytelling session, at different stages of a listener‟s personal development. Meaning starts as literal and evolves through re-interpretation to abstract and deeper levels towards application in real life.

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