ArticleHealth psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association2015
Momentary assessment of contextual influences on affective response during physical activity.
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58 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Physical activity and mental health: a systematic review and best-evidence synthesis of mediation and moderation studies.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024Pooled it
- The Within-Subject Association of Physical Behavior and Affective Well-Being in Everyday Life: A Systematic Literature Review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2024Pooled it
- The Experience Sampling Method in Monitoring Social Interactions Among Children and Adolescents in School: A Systematic Literature Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Pooled it
- Content validity and methodological considerations in ecological momentary assessment studies on physical activity and sedentary behaviour: a systematic review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2020Pooled it
- An Early-Stage Digital Therapeutic Intervention to Enhance Affective Response During Physical Activity Among Adults With Overweight or Obesity: Benchmark-Driven Formative Testing Study.JMIR human factors · 2026Trial
- Long-term outcomes of physical activity counseling in in-patients with major depressive disorder: results from the PACINPAT randomized controlled trial.Translational psychiatry · 2024Trial
- The Effects of Interrupting Sitting Time on Affect and State Anxiety in Children of Healthy Weight and Overweight: A Randomized Crossover Trial.Pediatric exercise science · 2020Trial
- Mobile Momentary Assessment and Biobehavioral Feedback for Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes: Feasibility and Engagement Patterns.Diabetes technology & therapeutics · 2018Trial
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- Associations Between 24-Hour Physical Behavior, Self-Perceived Stress, and Coping Self-Efficacy in Everyday Life: Ambulatory Assessment Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2026Article
- Effects of Equine Coaching on Psychoemotional Wellbeing: A Pilot Study in Women with and Without Fibromyalgia.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Understanding Longitudinal Ecological Momentary Assessment Completion: Results From 12 Months of Burst Sampling in the TIME Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2025Article
- Randomized trial of a digital therapeutics intervention to enhance affective response during physical activity: Protocol for the eMOTION study.Contemporary clinical trials · 2025Article
- Contexts, affective and physical states and their variations during physical activity in older adults: an intensive longitudinal study with sensor-triggered event-based ecological momentary assessments.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2025Article
- Positive affect amplifies integration within episodic memories in the laboratory and the real world.Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2025Article
- Isolating unique variance in mental health outcomes attributable to personality variables and childhood emotional abuse.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Affective Response During Real-World Physical Activity as an Intervention Mediator.Exercise and sport sciences reviews · 2023Article
- Daily Physical Activity: Associations With Memory and Affect.American journal of health promotion : AJHP · 2023Article
- Capturing the Dynamics of the Social Environment Through Experience Sampling Methods, Passive Sensing, and Egocentric Networks: Scoping Review.JMIR mental health · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveHigher positive and lower negative affective response during physical activity may reinforce motivation to engage in future activity. However, affective response during physical activity is typically examined under controlled laboratory conditions. This research used ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to examine social and physical contextual influences on momentary affective response during physical activity in naturalistic settings.
methodParticipants included 116 adults (mean age = 40.3 years, 73% female) who completed 8 randomly prompted EMA surveys per day for 4 days across 3 semiannual waves. EMA surveys measured current activity level, social context, and physical context. Participants also rated their current positive and negative affect. Multilevel models assessed whether momentary physical activity level moderated differences in affective response across contexts controlling for day of the week, time of day, and activity intensity (measured by accelerometer).
resultsThe Activity Level × Alone interaction was significant for predicting positive affect (β = -0.302, SE = 0.133, p = .024). Greater positive affect during physical activity was reported when with other people (vs. alone). The Activity Level × Outdoors interaction was significant for predicting negative affect (β = -0.206, SE = 0.097, p = .034). Lower negative affect during physical activity was reported outdoors (vs. indoors).
conclusionsBeing with other people may enhance positive affective response during physical activity, and being outdoors may dampen negative affective response during physical activity.
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