Being active during lockdown: the recovery potential of physical activity for well-being

Ginoux, Clément; Isoard-Gautheur, Sandrine; Teran-Escobar, Claudia; Forestier, Cyril; Chalabaev, Aïna; Clavel, Anna; Sarrazin, Philippe

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“…College students with high-quality physical activity (large amounts of exercise) had stronger subjective well-being, higher satisfaction with life, more energy, more pleasant mood, better control of emotions and behaviors, and felt relaxed more easily. This is consistent with many previous research results [18][19][20][21]. Sports may improve the mechanism of physical activity and help people obtain a good participation experience, making people feel physically relaxed, happy, and full of energy, and enhance self-efficacy and life satisfaction.…”

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Effects of Physical Activity on College Students’ Subjective Well-Being During COVID-19

Yuan

You

2022

J Epidemiol Glob Health

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Background The COVID-19 outbreak has caused widespread psychological distress to Chinese college students. To explore the beneficial psychological effects of physical activity, this study accessed the relationship of Physical Activity (PA) and Subjective Well-being (SWB) among Chinese college students during the pandemic. Methods A total of 1198 college students (aged between 17 and 40) from 8 universities in Wuhan, China, volunteered to finish the online questionnaire survey from February 17 to 20, 2020. General Well-Being Schedule (GWBS) was used to evaluate SWB, and Physical Activity Rating Scale-3 (PARS-3) was used to measure PA. The Mann–Whitney U test, χ2 test, t test, and analysis of variance were used to compare the differences between groups based on different data types. A multi-factor linear regression analysis was performed on the factors affecting college students' participation in physical activity during the pandemic. Differences were considered statistically significant when p < .05. Results It found that: (1) The quality of physical activity during COVID-19 significantly and positively predicted subjective well-being (B = 2.512, p < .001), indicating that physical activity can effectively alleviate adverse mental health effects caused by the pandemic. (2) The pandemic has had a greater impact on the mental health of specific groups (such as seniors and rural college students). Supporting and encouraging them to participate in a certain level of sports activities can improve their subjective well-being, which is helpful for countering the pandemic’s adverse effects. (3) People should be encouraged to participate in sports at moderate or high levels. Conclusion PA can effectively alleviate the negative psychological impact of the pandemic. In general, during major public health emergencies, people should be supported and encouraged to regularly participate in physical activities at moderate or higher levels, to improve their subjective well-being, and maintain positive anti-pandemic attitudes and behavior.

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Effects of Physical Activity on College Students’ Subjective Well-Being During COVID-19

Yuan

You

2022

J Epidemiol Glob Health

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“…Indeed, regular physical activity is known as an important source of physical health (e.g., benefits for the immune system, Nieman and Wentz, 2019 ) and mental well-being (e.g., reduced depression and anxiety symptoms, Rebar et al, 2015 ). For example, being physically active has been associated with greater well-being during the spring 2020 COVID-19 lockdown (Green et al, 2020 ; Lesser and Nienhuis, 2020 ; Qin et al, 2020 ; Schuch et al, 2020 ; Ginoux et al, 2021 ). In contrast, physical inactivity and sedentary behaviors have been associated with increased stress and anxiety (Meyer et al, 2020 ).…”

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Individual, Sociodemographic, and Environmental Factors Related to Physical Activity During the Spring 2020 COVID-19 Lockdown

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Background: Research has shown important between-individual variations in physical activity (PA) during the COVID-19 lockdown.Objectives: The objectives of this is study are to examine the individual, sociodemographic, and environmental factors related to PA during the spring 2020 COVID-19 lockdown in France and to explore the mediating and moderating role of intention and self-efficacy toward PA in the relationships between sociodemographic/environmental variables and PA.Design: In this cross-sectional study, participants living in France (N = 386) completed an online survey between March 30 and April 10, 2020.Method: Minutes per week of moderate-to-vigorous PA during the lockdown; usual physical activity before the lockdown; and psychological (e.g., intention, self-efficacy, and autonomous and controlled motivation), sociodemographic (gender, age, and number of children), and environmental (habitat surface area and type of housing) factors were measured in the survey. Multiple linear regressions were used to investigate the role of these predictors on PA. Intention and self-efficacy were also examined as moderators and mediators of the association between sociodemographic/environmental factors and PA.Results: Usual physical activity before the COVID-19 lockdown, intention toward PA, habitat surface area, and controlled motivation significantly predicted PA during the lockdown. No mediating effects of intention or self-efficacy were found. Intention significantly moderated the association between gender and PA and the association between part-time work and PA.Conclusions: PA during the COVID-19 lockdown was mainly predicted by individual factors and notably usual PA. These results highlight the important role of habits in a highly changing context.

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“…The findings are consistent with previous studies showing that basic needs satisfaction and needs frustration partly mediate the relationship between subjective perceptions of stressors and indicators of psychological functioning (Ebersold et al ., 2019). Within the COVID‐19 context, we found no comparable study, but a French study (Ginoux et al ., 2021) did find needs satisfaction to be related to higher well‐being and lower stress.…”

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“…The link between the satisfaction of basic psychological needs and psychological functioning is also supported by a study carried out with French adults during the 2020 spring lockdown due to the COVID‐19 pandemic showing moderate associations of need satisfaction with higher subjective well‐being and lower perceived stress (Ginoux, Isoard‐Gautheur, Teran‐Escoba et al ., 2021). The results indicate that individuals’ functioning is non‐optimal if basic psychological needs are not satisfied which was presumably the cause of diminished subjective well‐being during the COVID‐19 pandemic.…”

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COVID‐19 lockdown distress, but not the infection concerns, shape psychological functioning during the pandemic: The mediating role of basic psychological needs

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Kocjan

Kavčič

2021

Scandinavian J Psychology

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This study examined the effect of COVID‐19 lockdown and infection concerns on positive and negative aspects of psychological functioning during the first weeks of the new coronavirus pandemic, and the mediating role of basic psychological needs satisfaction and frustration. Slovene adults (N = 425; 79% female) filled in questionnaires measuring COVID‐19‐related stressors, satisfaction and frustration of basic psychological needs, well‐being, and ill‐being. Results of the path analysis with Bootstrap estimation procedure revealed that the perceived severity of the COVID‐19 lockdown circumstances predicted diminished psychological functioning of participants both directly and via decreased needs satisfaction and increased needs frustration. Conversely, the infection concerns had a much weaker and direct only effect on the increased ill‐being, but no effect on well‐being. These findings indicate that lockdown circumstances, but not the possibility of COVID‐19 infection, predominantly shape individuals’ ability to satisfy their basic needs and subsequently their psychological functioning during the pandemic. The study suggests that public health responses should address not only risk of infection but also people’s psychological needs.

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Being active during lockdown: the recovery potential of physical activity for well-being

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Effects of Physical Activity on College Students’ Subjective Well-Being During COVID-19

Effects of Physical Activity on College Students’ Subjective Well-Being During COVID-19

Individual, Sociodemographic, and Environmental Factors Related to Physical Activity During the Spring 2020 COVID-19 Lockdown

COVID‐19 lockdown distress, but not the infection concerns, shape psychological functioning during the pandemic: The mediating role of basic psychological needs

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