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Daniel Aggio1, Karen Wallace, Nicola Boreham
1From the UCL Department of Primary Care and Population Health (Aggio), UCL Medical School; Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (Wallace, Boreham, Steptoe, Hamer), University College London; Population Health Research Institute (Shankar), St. George's, University of London; and School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences (Hamer), Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom.
Objective:
The aim of the study was to determine whether objectively measured daily physical activity and posture of sitting, standing, and sit-to-stand transitions are associated with daily assessments of affect.
Methods:
Participants (N = 51, 49% female) wore ActivPal accelerometers for 24 h/d for seven consecutive days. Time spent sitting, standing, and being physically active and sit-to-stand transitions were derived for each day. Participants also completed a mood inventory each evening. Multilevel models examined within- and between-person associations of daily physical activity with positive and negative affect, adjusting for age, sex, body mass index, education, and sleep duration.
Results:
Within-person associations showed that a 1-hour increase in daily physical activity was associated with a decrease in negative affect over the same day (B = -0.11, 95% confidence interval [CI], -0.21 to -0.01). Between-person associations indicated a borderline significant association between higher average daily physical activity levels and higher positive affect (B = 1.85, 95% CI = -0.25 to 3.94). There were no between- or within-person associations between sitting, standing, and sit-to-stand transitions with affect.
Conclusions:
Promoting physical activity may be a potential intervention strategy to acutely suppress negative affective states.
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