scholarly journals How does sport affect mental health? An investigation into the relationship of leisure-time physical activity with depression and anxiety

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katja Siefken ◽  
Astrid Junge ◽  
Lena Laemmle
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Physical Activity ◽  
Leisure Time ◽  
Leisure Time Physical Activity ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The Association of Social Support and Leisure Time Physical Activity With Mental Health Among Individuals With Cancer

2020 ◽  
pp. 089011712096132
Author(s):  
Jaehyun Kim ◽  
Junhyoung Kim ◽  
Ronald D. Williams ◽  
Areum Han
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Physical Activity ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Leisure Time ◽  
Leisure Time Physical Activity ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Tangible Support ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose: This study examined the relationship among social support, leisure time physical activity (LTPA), and mental health among people with cancer. Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting and participants: Using the 2017 Health Information National Trends Survey, we extracted data of 504 respondents who had been diagnosed with any of the 22 types of cancer listed in the survey questionnaire. Measures: As independent variables, we assessed 3 different types of support: emotional, informational, and tangible support. As mediating and outcome variables, we measured LTPA and mental health, respectively. Analysis: Using AMOS version 22, a path analysis was conducted to measure model fit. A mediation test was then conducted using bootstrapping procedures. Results: The hypothesized model provided an acceptable fit to the data. Specifically, emotional support ( b = .15, p = .005), informational support ( b = .13, p = .008), tangible support ( b = .12, p = .010), and LTPA ( b = .14, p = .001) were significantly associated with mental health. We revealed a significant mediating effect of LPTA on the relationship between emotional support and mental health (Estimate = .037, 95% CI = .001–.098, p < .05). Conclusion: Social support and LTPA played a significant role in promoting mental health among people with cancer. In particular, the results confirmed that individuals with cancer who reported receiving emotional support tended to engage in LTPA and thus reported better mental health.

scholarly journals The Association of Body Fat and Leisure Time Physical Activity Called into Question for Asian Indians

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéphane Sinnapah ◽  
Sophie Antoine-Jonville ◽  
Olivier Hue
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Body Fat ◽  
Leisure Time ◽  
Asian Indians ◽  
Leisure Time Physical Activity ◽  
Alpha Risk ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Activity Questionnaire

<p class="Pa7"><strong>Objective: </strong>Thrifty genotypes may predis­pose to type 2 diabetes and body fat (%BF) excess through a differentiated relationship between physical activity and body fat. We explored this hypothesis in Asian Indians, a population thought to be thrifty.</p><p class="Pa7"><strong>Methods: </strong>Three hundred and nine Guade­loupian adolescents responded to the modi­fiable activity questionnaire. Their body fat was assessed by bioimpedancemetry. We first studied the relationship between %BF and leisure time physical activity (LTPA). We then explored the associations of ethnic­ity with this relationship in a subgroup of 93 Asian Indians matched with 93 controls for age, sex, and LTPA class. The alpha risk retained was .05.</p><p class="Pa7"><strong>Results: </strong>The analyses showed that Asian In­dians had higher %BF even when matched with controls for age, sex and LTPA quartile, and the relationship between LTPA and %BF observed in controls was not evidenced in Asian Indians.</p><p class="Pa7"><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The higher %BF in Asian In­dians remained significant even when they were matched with controls for age, sex and LTPA quartile, and their LTPA was not associated ‒ or was at least less robustly as­sociated ‒ with %BF. These findings are con­sistent with the hypothesis of thriftiness in Asian Indians, with the weaker relationship of high LTPA and low %BF a possible path to thriftiness.</p><p class="Pa7"><em>Ethn Dis. </em>2016;26(4):485-492; doi:10.18865/ed.26.4.485</p>

scholarly journals Relationship of Depression, Aging and Immune System During Covid-19 Pandemic: A Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Farah Iylia Binti Fauzi ◽  
Siti Fatimah Binti Salleh ◽  
Mohammad Shahadat Hossen
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Immune System ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Coping Mechanisms ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

COVID-19 is a highly contagious virus that first appeared in China in December 2019. It has affected over 157 million people and killed over 3.2 million. The paper reviews the function of the immune system for COVID-19 prevention, depression, and anxiety due to COVID-19 and their effects on the immune system and the relationship of aging with the immune system and depression and anxiety. It has been found that several elderly people lack the coping mechanisms required to deal with the stress caused by COVID-19. Hence, identifying the factors and mechanisms that lead to this resilience will aid in the development of preventive measures for certain elderly people and groups with more severe mental health problems. Additionally, it would be beneficial to understand how technology could be leveraged to accomplish this goal. During the pandemic, various steps such as social isolation, quarantine, and self-isolation are needed to be implemented properly to slow the spread of the virus. Meanwhile, to help halt the pandemic, everybody must be vaccinated as soon as possible until any bans on social gatherings and social isolation can be removed, allowing other sectors such as schooling, social activities, and life to resume normalcy.

Relationships between Leisure Time Physical Activity and Perceived Stress

1996 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 315-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven G. Aldana ◽  
Leanne D. Sutton ◽  
Bert H. Jacobson ◽  
Michael G. Quirk
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Stress Reduction ◽  
Leisure Time ◽  
Leisure Time Physical Activity ◽  
Type A Behavior ◽  
Life Changes ◽  
Working Adults ◽  
Confounding Variables ◽  
The Relationship

This study investigated the relationship between physical activity during leisure time and perceived stress among working adults ( N = 32,229). Data were gathered on physical activity, perceived stress, current health status, age, gender, life changes, ongoing problems, number of techniques used for stress reduction, and number of personality traits related to Type A behavior. To control for confounding variables Mantel-Haenszel summary risk estimates were used. Employees who expended more than 3.0 Kcal/kg−1 · day−1 in physical activity during leisure time were 0.78 and 0.62 times less likely to have moderate and high perceived stress, respectively. Working adults participating in moderate amounts of these activities have about half the rate of perceived stress as nonparticipants.

The Relationship between Resilience and Mental Health: the Mediating Effect of Positive Emotions

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Zhun Gong ◽  
Lichao Yu ◽  
Jonathan W Schooler
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Negative Correlation ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Positive Correlation ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

<p class="tgt"><em>To investigate the relationship of resilience, positive emotions and mental health, and the relationship of resilience, positive emotion and three sub-dimensions of mental health: self-affirmation, depression and anxiety. In this study, the existing cross-sectional data, select the Beijing Forestry University data as samples. In this study, questionnaire survey a random sample of 199 undergraduate students of Beijing Forestry University, they uniform application three Scale Surveying, PANAS, CD-RISC, GHQ-20. According from the study, (1) resilience, positive mood and general health are related where resilience and positive emotions between the resilience. General psychological health, positive emotions and general mental health</em><em>?</em><em>it is positively correlated. (2) Resilience and self-affirmation exists, positive correlation with depression and anxiety, respectively negative correlation. Between positive emotions and self-affirmation the positive correlation with anxiety negative correlation. (3) Part mediating effect of positive emotions exist between resilience and self-affirmation, resilience can be made to self-affirmation prediction coefficient from 0.042 down to 0.036. Therefore, this study concluded that resilience undergraduates can have an impact on mental health through the intermediary variable positive emotions.</em></p>

Dose–Response Relationship of Total and Leisure Time Physical Activity to Risk of Heart Failure

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 701-708 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kasper Andersen ◽  
Daniela Mariosa ◽  
Hans-Olov Adami ◽  
Claes Held ◽  
Erik Ingelsson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Heart Failure ◽  
Dose Response ◽  
Leisure Time ◽  
Leisure Time Physical Activity ◽  
Response Relationship ◽  
Dose Response Relationship ◽  
Relationship Of
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