Behavioral activation or inhibition during emotional stress--implications for exercise habits and emotional problems among young females

Seigel, Klaus; Broman, Jan‐Erik; Hetta, Jerker

doi:10.1080/08039480260389361

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“…Since this time, research designs have varied widely and have extended to include qualitative [171-179], retrospective [77, 180-183], prospective [17, 20, 184-192], and experimental work [193], although most studies are cross-sectional [143, 194-196]. Likewise, studies have narrowed from the examination of stress on the wider scope of health behaviors to a specific focus on the effects of stress on PA and exercise.…”

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The Effects of Stress on Physical Activity and Exercise

2013

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Background Psychological stress and physical activity (PA) are believed to be reciprocally related; however, most research examining the relationship between these constructs is devoted to the study of exercise and/or PA as an instrument to mitigate distress. Objective The aim of this paper was to review the literature investigating the influence of stress on indicators of PA and exercise. Methods A systematic search of Web of Science, Pub-Med, and SPORTDiscus was employed to find all relevant studies focusing on human participants. Search terms included “stress”, “exercise”, and “physical activity”. A rating scale (0–9) modified for this study was utilized to assess the quality of all studies with multiple time points. Results The literature search found 168 studies that examined the influence of stress on PA. Studies varied widely in their theoretical orientation and included perceived stress, distress, life events, job strain, role strain, and work–family conflict but not lifetime cumulative adversity. To more clearly address the question, prospective studies (n = 55) were considered for further review, the majority of which indicated that psychological stress predicts less PA (behavioral inhibition) and/or exercise or more sedentary behavior (76.4 %). Both objective (i.e., life events) and subjective (i.e., distress) measures of stress related to reduced PA. Prospective studies investigating the effects of objective markers of stress nearly all agreed (six of seven studies) that stress has a negative effect on PA. This was true for research examining (a) PA at periods of objectively varying levels of stress (i.e., final examinations vs. a control time point) and (b) chronically stressed populations (e.g., caregivers, parents of children with a cancer diagnosis) that were less likely to be active than controls over time. Studies examining older adults (>50 years), cohorts with both men and women, and larger sample sizes (n > 100) were more likely to show an inverse association. 85.7 % of higher-quality prospective research (≥7 on a 9-point scale) showed the same trend. Interestingly, some prospective studies (18.2 %) report evidence that PA was positively impacted by stress (behavioral activation). This should not be surprising as some individuals utilize exercise to cope with stress. Several other factors may moderate stress and PA relationships, such as stages of change for exercise. Habitually active individuals exercise more in the face of stress, and those in beginning stages exercise less. Consequently, stress may have a differential impact on exercise adoption, maintenance, and relapse. Preliminary evidence suggests that combining stress management programming with exercise interventions may allay stress-related reductions in PA, though rigorous testing of these techniques has yet to be produced. Conclusions Overall, the majority of the literature finds that the experience of stress impairs efforts to be physically active. Future work should center on the development of a theory explaining the...

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confidence: 99%

“…Speaking to the point of positive influences of stress, 29 studies found that stress predicts an increase in PA behavior [3, 17, 81, 164, 168, 171, 172, 175, 183, 251, 253, 254, 256, 259, 262, 264, 267, 269, 278-280, 313-320], ten of which were prospective (see above). Other studies found trends in this direction [169, 191].…”

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confidence: 99%

The Effects of Stress on Physical Activity and Exercise

2013

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“…It may be a function of the general coping style of the nurses interviewed. As an example, under conditions of stress, those with a rigid coping style may be more inclined to increase physical activity behaviour [54]. …”

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Understanding perceived determinants of nurses’ eating and physical activity behaviour: a theory-informed qualitative interview study

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BackgroundUnhealthy eating and physical activity behaviours are common among nurses but little is known about determinants of eating and physical activity behaviour in this population. The present study used a theoretical framework which summarises the many possible determinants of different health behaviours (the Theoretical Domains Framework; TDF) to systematically explore the most salient determinants of unhealthy eating and physical activity behaviour in hospital-based nurses.MethodsSemi-structured qualitative interviews based on the TDF were conducted with nurses (n = 16) to explore factors that behavioural theories suggest may influence nurses’ eating and physical activity behaviour. Important determinants of the target behaviours were identified using both inductive coding (of categories emerging from the data) and deductive coding (of categories derived from the TDF) of the qualitative data.ResultsThirteen of the fourteen domains in the TDF were found to influence nurses’ eating and physical activity behaviour. Within these domains, important barriers to engaging in healthy eating and physical activity behaviour were shift work, fatigue, stress, beliefs about negative consequences, the behaviours of family and friends and lack of planning. Important factors reported to enable engagement with healthy eating and physical activity behaviours were beliefs about benefits, the use of self-monitoring strategies, support from work colleagues, confidence, shift work, awareness of useful guidelines and strategies, good mood, future holidays and receiving compliments.ConclusionsThis study used a theory-informed approach by applying the TDF to identify the key perceived determinants of nurses’ eating and physical activity behaviour. The findings suggest that future efforts to change nurses’ eating and physical activity behaviours should consider targeting a broad range of environmental, interpersonal and intrapersonal level factors, consistent with a socio-ecological perspective.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s40608-017-0154-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“…A participant was classified as physically active if they regularly participated in sports during leisure time ≥ 1 hour/ week in either season. Difficulties initiating and maintaining sleep were assessed using a section of the Uppsala Sleep Inventory (USI) (Seigel et al, 2002). Two separate three-category questions were asked "Do you have trouble falling asleep?"…”

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confidence: 99%