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Jasmin C Hutchinson1, Costas I Karageorghis, Leighton Jones
1Exercise Science and Sport Studies Department, Springfield College, Springfield, MA, USA, jhutchinson@springfieldcollege.edu.
Background:
There is a paucity of work addressing the distractive, affect-enhancing, and motivational influences of music and video in combination during exercise.
Purpose:
We examined the effects of music and music-and-video on a range of psychological and psychophysical variables during treadmill running at intensities above and below ventilatory threshold (VT).
Methods:
Participants (N = 24) exercised at 10 % of maximal capacity below VT and 10 % above under music-only, music-and-video, and control conditions.
Results:
There was a condition × intensity × time interaction for perceived activation and state motivation, and an intensity × time interaction for state attention, perceived exertion (RPE), and affective valence. The music-and-video condition elicited the highest levels of dissociation, lowest RPE, and most positive affective responses regardless of exercise intensity.
Conclusions:
Attentional manipulations influence psychological and psychophysical variables at exercise intensities above and below VT, and this effect is enhanced by the combined presentation of auditory and visual stimuli.
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