Emotion regulation during physical recreational activities among adult women

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Description

“Physical recreational activities model for emotions, anxiety and subjective vitality regulation in adult females” has been develop, reflecting statistically significant differences in adult females between positive emotion indicators before and after physical loads, detected during the study, as well as foreseen vitality indicators on positive emotional changes during physical activities. Over two years, performing regular (1-4 times a week) physical activities for adult females, their anxiety indicators were compared, finding as a result statistically significant differences between the data at the beginning and at the end of the project, testifying to the productivity implementing the physical recreational activity model.
For the purposes of the study, the SVS was adapted, translating it from English into Latvian. The Adapted SVS can be used in further scientific studies in Latvia.
Practical significance of the research
Using physical recreational activities model, any interested person is able to multiply his/her positive emotions and subjective vitality and reduce anxiety by practicing outdoor physical recreational activities. It is freely available to everyone with small alterations.
The results of the scientific study are of great practical significance in maintaining adults’ health and work capacity. In order to apply the theoretical insights gained in the doctoral thesis to practice, people’s understanding of their emotion changes during physical recreational activities should be furthered, encouraging the people to understand how to assess their emotions and subjective vitality efficiently and how to decrease stress and anxiety.
Middle-aged women who are ageing must pay particular attention to their physical activity habits, to ensure their regularity, stressing the effect of the habit of performing physical activities, thus gaining positive effect in the long term.

Key findings

Theses proposed for presentation
1. The subjective vitality scale adapted into Latvian can be used in intercultural studies in sport science for determining and monitoring subjective vitality.
2. There are statistically significant correlations between physical recreational activities habits (intensity, regularity, type and total duration) and emotional changes, anxiety and subjective vitality indicators.
3. “Physical recreational activities model for emotions, anxiety and subjective vitality regulation in adult females” is composed of statistically significant correlations between variables proposed in the study, gained as a result of the study, indicating that:
3.1. people who practice physical recreational activities have lower negative emotion indicators;
3.2. regular physical recreational activities decrease daily anxiety;
3.3. outdoor physical recreational activities increase a person’s subjective vitality;
3.4. benefits from physical recreational activities are related to their regularity, intensity and type;
3.5. performing regular (1-4 times a week) physical recreational activities for at least two years encourages emotion, anxiety and subjective vitality regulation, that is, positive emotional indicators improve, anxiety indicators decrease and subjective vitality indicators increase.
4. The implementation of the physical recreational activity model – exercise using freely available physical recreational activities – multiply a person’s positive emotions, decrease anxiety and increase subjective vitality.
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date1/12/131/05/24

Keywords

  • emotions, outdoor physical recreational activities, model, regulation, stress, subjective vitality, trait anxiety, anxiety, state anxiety

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