Original articles  SPORT PSYCHOLOGY 

The Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness 2003 June;43(2):220-2

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Subjective exercise experiences during and after high and low intensity exercise in active and inactive adult females. Some preliminary findings

Daley A. J., Welch A.

The Centre for Sport and Exercise Science Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK

Aim. To inves­ti­gate the rela­tion­ship ­between sub­jec­tive exer­cise expe­ri­enc­es and exer­cise inten­sity in ­active and inac­tive ­females.
Meth­ods. Par­tic­i­pants con­sist­ed of 8 inac­tive and 8 ­active ­female vol­un­teers who com­plet­ed the Sub­jec­tive Exer­cise Expe­ri­ence ­Scale pre-exer­cise, 10 min dur­ing and 5 min ­after low and ­high inten­sity exer­cise.
­Results. A ­series of 2×2×3 (­Group × Con­di­tion × ­Time) ­between-par­tic­i­pants repeat­ed meas­ures anal­y­sis of var­i­ance ­revealed a sig­nif­i­cant Con­di­tion × ­Time inter­ac­tion for Psy­cho­log­i­cal ­Well-­being ­scores (p<0.01). Dur­ing exer­cise par­tic­i­pants report­ed sig­nif­i­cant­ly high­er Psy­cho­log­i­cal ­Well-­being ­scores in the low inten­sity com­pared to ­high inten­sity exer­cise con­di­tion. In the ­high inten­sity exer­cise con­di­tion par­tic­i­pants report­ed high­er Psy­cho­log­i­cal ­Well-­being ­scores per exer­cise ­than ­before or dur­ing exer­cise. ­Time ­main ­effects ­were ­also record­ed for Psy­cho­log­i­cal ­Well-­being (p<0.05) and Psy­cho­log­i­cal Dis­tress ­scores (p<0.05).
Con­clu­sion. ­These pre­lim­i­nary find­ings indi­cate ­that exer­cise may pos­i­tive­ly influ­ence psy­cho­log­i­cal ­states irre­spec­tive of ­participants’ activ­ity stat­us.