ArticleJournal of behavioral medicine2017
Examining acute bi-directional relationships between affect, physical feeling states, and physical activity in free-living situations using electronic ecological momentary assessment.
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- 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
- 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
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- Motives matter: A smartphone EMA study on the association between motives to exercise, exercise engagement and mood.British journal of health psychology · 2026Article
- Feeling Better Before, Not After: An Ecological Momentary Assessment of Affect Around Exercise in Women With Eating Disorders.The International journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- The ups and downs of psychological states: The role of subject-level variability in affect and motivation as predictors of sedentary behavior in older adults.Applied psychology. Health and well-being · 2026Article
- Studying Contextual and Psychological Predictors of Physical Activity Among Emerging Adults: Protocol for an Ecological Momentary Assessment Study.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Feeling Better Before, Not After: An Ecological Momentary Assessment of Affect Around Exercise in Women with Eating Disorders.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Bidirectional Associations Between Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Daily Symptoms in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Longitudinal Observational Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2025Observational
- Measuring Psychological Well-Being and Behaviors Using Smartphone-Based Digital Phenotyping: An Intensive Longitudinal Observational mHealth Pilot Study Embedded in a Prospective Cohort of Women.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2025Observational
- Evaluation of the Neurocognitive Affective Model for the Prediction of Habitual 24-Hour Physical Behavior.European journal of sport science · 2025Article
- Real-Time Fatigue and Physical Activity of Older Adults in Assisted Living: Feasibility of Ecological Momentary Assessment.Western journal of nursing research · 2025Article
- Associations between daily composition of 24 h physical behavior with affective states and working memory.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Daily reciprocal relationships between affect, physical activity, and sleep in middle and later life.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2025Article
- Ecological Momentary Assessment of Momentary Associations Between Availability of Physical Activity Space and Physical Activity Opportunities Among Children from Rural, Urban, and Suburban Locales.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Bi-directional associations of core affect and physical activity in adults with higher body weight: An ecological momentary assessment study.Journal of health psychology · 2024Article
- Leveraging Emerging Technologies to Expand Accessibility and Improve Precision in Rehabilitation and Exercise for People with Disabilities.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Review
- Exercise and Acute Affect.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2024Article
- Investigating the day-level associations between affective variability and physical activity using ecological momentary assessment.Psychology of sport and exercise · 2024Article
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Abstract
Current knowledge about the relationship of physical activity with acute affective and physical feeling states is informed largely by lab-based studies, which have limited generalizability to the natural ecology. This study used ecological momentary assessment to assess subjective affective and physical feeling states in free-living settings across 4 days from 110 non-physically active adults (Age M = 40.4, SD = 9.7). Light physical activity (LPA) and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) were measured objectively by an accelerometer. Multilevel modeling was used to test the bi-directional associations between affective and physical feeling states and LPA/MVPA minutes. Higher positive affect, lower negative affect and fatigue were associated with more MVPA over the subsequent 15 min, while higher negative affect and energy were associated with more LPA over the subsequent 15 and 30 min. Additionally, more LPA and MVPA were associated with feeling more energetic over the subsequent 15 and 30 min, and more LPA was additionally associated with feeling more negative and less tired over the subsequent 15 and 30 min. Positive and negative affective states might serve as antecedents to but not consequences of MVPA in adults' daily lives. Changes in LPA may be predicted and followed by negative affective states. Physical feeling states appear to lead up to and follow changes in both LPA and MVPA.
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