ArticleFrontiers in psychology2016
Aerobic Exercise As a Potential Way to Improve Self-Control after Ego-Depletion in Healthy Female College Students.
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- The Influence of Acute Aerobic Exercise on Craving Degree for University Students with Mobile Phone Dependency: A Randomized Controlled Trial.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Trial
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- Physical exercise and aggressive behavior in rural left-behind children: the mediating roles of psychological capital and self-control.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Judo exercises increase emotional expression, self-control, and psychological resilience.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Exploring the effects of long-term physical exercise on persistent and inhibitory self-control: quasi-experimental research.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Article
- The relationship between physical activity and school adjustment in high school students: the chain mediating role of psychological resilience and self-control.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Physical activity moderated the mediating effect of self-control between bullying victimization and mobile phone addiction among college students.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The influence of physical exercise on adolescents' externalizing problem behaviors: mediating effects of parent-child relationships, self-esteem, and self-control.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Physical activity, problematic smartphone use, and burnout among Chinese college students.PeerJ · 2023Article
- Physical Activity and Academic Procrastination among Chinese University Students: A Parallel Mediation Model of Self-Control and Self-Efficacy.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Sedentary Behavior and Problematic Smartphone Use in Chinese Adolescents: The Moderating Role of Self-Control.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Effect of a Combined Exercise and Dietary Intervention on Self-Control in Obese Adolescents.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Incorporating positive youth development into the therapeutic model for incarcerated young woman.Frontiers in women's health · 2018Article
- Clinical pain, abstraction, and self-control: being in pain makes it harder to see the forest for the trees and is associated with lower self-control.Journal of pain research · 2018Article
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Abstract
purposeTo test whether aerobic exercise can help build self-control stamina in healthy female young adults. Stamina in this context is defined as the capability to endure ego depletion, which can be measured with a self-control task following another activity also requiring self-control.
methodsForty-five healthy undergraduate women were randomized to either an experimental group or control group. Participants in the experimental group were required to run in their campus running field for 30 min for a period of 5 weeks. Individuals in the control group were required to do diary entries regarding self-control in their daily lives, also for a period of 5 weeks. Before and after the 5-week intervention, participants completed a pain threshold test, a color word Stroop task and the following Cold Pressor Task (CPT) (with and without a distraction component).
resultsThere was significant decrease of pain tolerance in session 2 relative to session 1 in the control group, but no such decline was found in the experimental group (though the improvement of pain tolerance was not significant), possibly suggesting successful self-control against this kind of decline.
conclusionsFive weeks of aerobic exercise increased self-control after ego depletion in terms of pain tolerance. These findings suggest that aerobic exercise may serve as a potential effective intervention for enhancing self-control in a college female population.
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