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Affective responses in mountain hiking—A randomized crossover trial focusing on differences between indoor and outdoor activity
INTRODUCTION: Affective responses during physical activity (PA) are important for engagement in PA programs and for adherence to a physically active lifestyle. Little is known about the affective responses to PA bouts lasting longer than 45 minutes. Therefore, the aims of the present study were to a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5433751/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28520774 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177719 |
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author | Niedermeier, Martin Einwanger, Jürgen Hartl, Arnulf Kopp, Martin |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Affective responses during physical activity (PA) are important for engagement in PA programs and for adherence to a physically active lifestyle. Little is known about the affective responses to PA bouts lasting longer than 45 minutes. Therefore, the aims of the present study were to analyse acute effects on affective responses of a three-hour outdoor PA intervention (mountain hiking) compared to a sedentary control situation and to an indoor treadmill condition. METHODS: Using a randomized crossover design, 42 healthy participants were randomly exposed to three different conditions: outdoor mountain hiking, indoor treadmill walking, and sedentary control situation (approximately three hours each). Measures included the Feeling Scale, Felt Arousal Scale and a Mood Survey Scale. Repeated measures ANOVAs were used to analyse differences between the conditions. RESULTS: Compared to the control situation, the participants showed a significant increase in affective valence (d = 1.21, p < .001), activation (d = 0.81, p = .004), elation (d = 1.07, p < .001), and calmness (d = 0.84, p = .004), and a significant decrease in fatigue (d = -1.19, p < .001) and anxiety (d = -.79, p < .001) after mountain hiking. Outdoor mountain hiking showed significantly greater positive effects on affective valence, activation, and fatigue compared to indoor treadmill walking. DISCUSSION: The results indicate that a three-hour PA intervention (mountain hiking) elicits higher positive and lower negative affective responses compared to a sedentary control situation and to an indoor PA condition. Outdoor mountain hiking can be recommended by health professionals as a form of PA with the potential to positively influence affective responses. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02853760. https://clinicaltrials.gov/. Date of registration: 08/02/2016 (retrospectively registered). Date of enrolment of the first participant to the trial: 05/01/2014. |
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spelling | pubmed-54337512017-05-26 Affective responses in mountain hiking—A randomized crossover trial focusing on differences between indoor and outdoor activity Niedermeier, Martin Einwanger, Jürgen Hartl, Arnulf Kopp, Martin PLoS One Research Article INTRODUCTION: Affective responses during physical activity (PA) are important for engagement in PA programs and for adherence to a physically active lifestyle. Little is known about the affective responses to PA bouts lasting longer than 45 minutes. Therefore, the aims of the present study were to analyse acute effects on affective responses of a three-hour outdoor PA intervention (mountain hiking) compared to a sedentary control situation and to an indoor treadmill condition. METHODS: Using a randomized crossover design, 42 healthy participants were randomly exposed to three different conditions: outdoor mountain hiking, indoor treadmill walking, and sedentary control situation (approximately three hours each). Measures included the Feeling Scale, Felt Arousal Scale and a Mood Survey Scale. Repeated measures ANOVAs were used to analyse differences between the conditions. RESULTS: Compared to the control situation, the participants showed a significant increase in affective valence (d = 1.21, p < .001), activation (d = 0.81, p = .004), elation (d = 1.07, p < .001), and calmness (d = 0.84, p = .004), and a significant decrease in fatigue (d = -1.19, p < .001) and anxiety (d = -.79, p < .001) after mountain hiking. Outdoor mountain hiking showed significantly greater positive effects on affective valence, activation, and fatigue compared to indoor treadmill walking. DISCUSSION: The results indicate that a three-hour PA intervention (mountain hiking) elicits higher positive and lower negative affective responses compared to a sedentary control situation and to an indoor PA condition. Outdoor mountain hiking can be recommended by health professionals as a form of PA with the potential to positively influence affective responses. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02853760. https://clinicaltrials.gov/. Date of registration: 08/02/2016 (retrospectively registered). Date of enrolment of the first participant to the trial: 05/01/2014. Public Library of Science 2017-05-16 /pmc/articles/PMC5433751/ /pubmed/28520774 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177719 Text en © 2017 Niedermeier et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Niedermeier, Martin Einwanger, Jürgen Hartl, Arnulf Kopp, Martin Affective responses in mountain hiking—A randomized crossover trial focusing on differences between indoor and outdoor activity |
title | Affective responses in mountain hiking—A randomized crossover trial focusing on differences between indoor and outdoor activity |
title_full | Affective responses in mountain hiking—A randomized crossover trial focusing on differences between indoor and outdoor activity |
title_fullStr | Affective responses in mountain hiking—A randomized crossover trial focusing on differences between indoor and outdoor activity |
title_full_unstemmed | Affective responses in mountain hiking—A randomized crossover trial focusing on differences between indoor and outdoor activity |
title_short | Affective responses in mountain hiking—A randomized crossover trial focusing on differences between indoor and outdoor activity |
title_sort | affective responses in mountain hiking—a randomized crossover trial focusing on differences between indoor and outdoor activity |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5433751/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28520774 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177719 |
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