Higher Levels of Physical Activity Are Associated With Lower Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenocortical Axis Reactivity to Psychosocial Stress in Children

Martikainen, Silja; Pesonen, Anu‐Katriina; Lahti, Jari; Heinonen, Kati; Feldt, Kimmo; Pyhälä, Riikka; Tammelin, Tuija; Kajantie, Eero; Eriksson, Johan G.; Strandberg, Timo; Räikkönen, Katri

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“…These results are novel in children and in the context of obesity. The results are in line with the study of Martikainen et al [37] who investigated NW children with different levels of daytime PA representing chronic PA. They found decreased cortisol reactivity in NW children who were generally physically active.…”

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“…During the 15-min recovery period following this, all children in both arms received instructions for the Trier Social Test for Children (TSST-C) [37, 46]. The test has been developed to induce psychosocial stress and has been shown to elicit a strong and reliable stress response [46].…”

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“…So far, only two studies investigated the effects of PA on stress reactivity in normal-weight (NW) children. Chronic PA was related to lower diurnal HPA activity and lower HPA reactivity to acute stress in pre-pubertal children [37]. Further, acute PA decreased BP but not HR reactivity to interpersonal stress in pre-pubertal schoolchildren with healthy body weight [38].…”

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Influence of Acute Physical Activity on Stress Reactivity in Obese and Normal Weight Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Messerli‐Bürgy¹,

Horsch²,

Schindler³

et al. 2019

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Objective: Physical activity (PA) may influence acute stress reactivity in children differently depending on their weight. This randomized controlled trial investigated the impact of acute PA and of BMI status (overweight/obese (OB/OW) and normal weight (NW) on stress reactivity. Method: 50 prepubertal children (24 OW/OB and 26 NW) were randomly assigned to the PA or sedentary arm (SED) for 30 min followed by a stress task. Salivary cortisol, blood pressure (BP), and heart rate (HR) were measured. Results: An interaction effect between the randomization arms and weight status on salivary cortisol was found after the stress task (p = 0.04). Cortisol increased in the SED, but not in the PA arm (p = 0.004 for differences in time course) of NW children. Time course did not differ between both arms in OW/OB children (p = 0.7). OW/OB SED children had a flat cortisol course, and levels were reduced compared to the NW SED or the OW/OB PA children (p ≤ 0.03). Systolic BP increased only in the SED arm (p = 0.01). HR was higher in the PA than in the SED arm during stress (p < 0.001) and showed different time courses (p = 0.006). Conclusion: PA impacted on acute stress reactivity and influenced stress reactivity differently in NW and OW/OB children.

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Influence of Acute Physical Activity on Stress Reactivity in Obese and Normal Weight Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Messerli‐Bürgy¹,

Horsch²,

Schindler³

et al. 2019

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“…Asimismo, una mayor realización de la misma se correlaciona con niveles de estrés percibido y cortisol salival menores, evidenciando que la mayor intensidad tiene efectos positivos sobre los niveles de ES (Gerber et al, 2017;Jones, Taylor, Liao, Intille, & Dunton, 2017;Klaperski, von Dawans, Heinrichs, & Fuchs, 2013;Martikainen et al, 2013).…”

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Revisión De Los Beneficios De La Intensidad Y Modalidades De Ejercicio Físico Sobre El Estrés Psicológico

Azofeifa-Mora¹

2018

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RESUMENAzofeifa-Mora, C.A. (2018). Revisión de los beneficios de la intensidad y modalidades del ejercicio físico sobre el estrés psicológico. PENSAR EN MOVIMIENTO: Revista de Ciencias del Ejercicio y la Salud, 16(1), 1-21. El propósito de esta revisión sistemática fue hacer un recuento de los principales resultados de la intensidad del ejercicio físico, así como del entrenamiento aeróbico, fuerza muscular, yoga, tai chi y pilates como estrategias de afrontamiento en la disminución del estrés psicológico. Para ello se realizó una búsqueda en diversas bases de datos (Google Académico, SportDiscus, Science Direct, Scopus, Springer Link) de artículos científicos publicados desde el 2010 hasta el 2017, bajo las siguientes palabras claves (en español e inglés): estrés psicológico, ejercicio, entrenamiento aeróbico, fuerza, yoga, pilates, tai chi, intensidad, cortisol y actividad física. Para un total de 32 artículos

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“…Several individual difference variables have been suggested to moderate a person's cortisol response to psychosocial stress and thus explain null effects [6). For children and adolescents, however, only few of these moderating var·iables like participants' physical activity levels [13], depression severity [14], or neuroticism [15] have been previously examined.…”

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The implicit power motive and adolescents’ salivary cortisol responses to acute psychosocial stress and exercise in school

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Schüler²,

Scheuermann³

et al. 2015

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Abstract:In the present study we examined the moderating effect of the power motive on salivary cortisol responses to acute psychosocial stress and exercise in adolescents. Fifty-seven high school students aged M = 14.8 years participated in the study. The Operant Motive Test was applied to measure the implicit power motive and the Personality Research Fonn was used to measure the explicit power motive. Salivary cortisol levels were assessed before and after the stress stimuli. Participants were randomly assigned to three experimental groups. An exercise group ran 15 minutes at a defmed heart rate of 65-75% HRmax· A psychosocial stress group worked on a standard intelligence test for the same amount of time under the assumption, that their test scores will be made public in class after the test. The control group participated in a regular class session. The implicit power motive was significantly associated with increased cortisol levels in the psychosocial stress group. The explicit power motive was not associated with cortisol responses. Findings suggest that the implicit power motive moderates the cortisol responses to acute stress in an adolescent age group with higher responses to psychosocial stress in comparison to exercise or control conditions.

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Higher Levels of Physical Activity Are Associated With Lower Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenocortical Axis Reactivity to Psychosocial Stress in Children

Abstract: These results suggest that children with lower levels of daytime PA have higher HPAA activity in response to stress. These findings may offer insight into the pathways of PA on physical and mental well-being.

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Influence of Acute Physical Activity on Stress Reactivity in Obese and Normal Weight Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Influence of Acute Physical Activity on Stress Reactivity in Obese and Normal Weight Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Revisión De Los Beneficios De La Intensidad Y Modalidades De Ejercicio Físico Sobre El Estrés Psicológico

The implicit power motive and adolescents’ salivary cortisol responses to acute psychosocial stress and exercise in school

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