Acute physical exercise intensity, cognitive inhibition and psychological well-being in adolescent physical education students
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Article Title | Acute physical exercise intensity, cognitive inhibition and psychological well-being in adolescent physical education students |
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ERA Journal ID | 6214 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Pastor, Diego (Author), Cervello, Eduardo (Author), Peruyero, Fernando (Author), Biddle, Stuart (Author) and Montero, Carlos (Author) |
Journal Title | Current Psychology: developmental - learning - personality - social |
Journal Citation | 40, pp. 5030-5039 |
Number of Pages | 10 |
Year | 2021 |
Publisher | Springer |
Place of Publication | New York, United States |
ISSN | 1046-1310 |
1936-4733 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-019-00454-z |
Web Address (URL) | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12144-019-00454-z |
Abstract | Cognitive function and psychological well-being are two variables related to mental health. Several studies have shown that these variables are sensitive to acute physical exercise, but it is not known which doses of exercise are the most adaptive. To explore this issue, 35 adolescents performed three sessions of physical education with different intensities: no-exercise, light/moderate exercise, and moderate/vigorous exercise, controlling intensities with accelerometers. Stroop test and well-being questionnaires were used before and after each session. The repeated measures design showed that cognitive inhibition was significantly higher after physical exercise sessions than in the non-exercise session, with no differences between the exercise intensity conditions. Vitality increased only in the non-exercise session and positive affect increased and negative affect decreased after the light/moderate physical exercise session only. These results show that including physical exercise prior to performing tasks that require high cognitive inhibition may be a useful strategy to improve cognitive performance. |
Keywords | acute physical exercise; adolescence; cognitive inhibition; well-being |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 420702. Exercise physiology |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | Miguel Hernandez University of Elche, Spain |
Institute for Resilient Regions | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q59v8/acute-physical-exercise-intensity-cognitive-inhibition-and-psychological-well-being-in-adolescent-physical-education-students
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