ArticleJournal of behavioral medicine2021
Contextual influences on the within-person association between physical activity and affect in adolescents: an ecological momentary assessment study.
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- An individual participant data meta-analysis of how physical activity relates to affective well-being in daily life.Nature human behaviour · 2026Pooled it
- Participant Compliance With Ecological Momentary Assessment in Movement Behavior Research Among Adolescents and Emerging Adults: Systematic Review.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2025Pooled 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
- Physical activity and mood in daily life - a multi-burst ambulatory assessment study disentangling state and trait components of within-person associations.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2026Article
- Associations between 24-hour movement behaviours and psychological wellbeing in adolescents using compositional data analysis.Journal of activity, sedentary and sleep behaviors · 2025Article
- Associations of emotional experience with gaming duration and risk of gaming disorder among adolescent gamers: An ecological momentary assessment study.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2025Article
- The association of caffeine consumption with positive affect but not with negative affect changes across the day.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Associations between wearables vital parameters and self-perceived mood-an ecological momentary assessment study among healthy adolescents.Frontiers in psychology · 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
- The Role of the Context of Physical Activity for Its Association with Affective Well-Being: An Experience Sampling Study in Young Adults.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Time-Varying Associations Between Device-Based and Ecological Momentary Assessment-Reported Sedentary Behaviors and the Concurrent Affective States Among Adolescents: Proof-of-Concept Study.JMIR formative research · 2022Article
- How do people feel while walking in the city? Using walking-triggered e-diaries to investigate the association of social interaction and environmental greenness during everyday life walking.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
There is limited research on how the context in which moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) occurs influences the relationship between physical activity and affect. This study aimed to investigate how the social context and physical environment enhance the relationship between MVPA and affect in daily life. Overall, 119 adolescents (mean age = 14.7 years) provided information about their core affect, physical environment and social context on multiple occasions over a 4-day period using ecological momentary assessment. Additionally, participants' level of MVPA was objectively measured using accelerometers. Level of MVPA was positively associated with energetic arousal, being outdoors was positively associated with valence and energetic arousal, and being with someone else was also positively associated with energetic arousal. Additionally, being outdoors moderated the association between MVPA and tense arousal so that MVPA was only inversely related to tense arousal when outdoors. These findings showed that young people experience more positive valence, greater levels of energetic arousal and less tense arousal when physically active outdoors compared to when indoors and highlight the importance of encouraging young people to participate in physical activity outdoors. Further research is warranted to understand how social contexts may influence the association between MVPA and affect in young people.
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