Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
Br J Health Psychol. 2023 Sep;28(3):876-892. doi: 10.1111/bjhp.12659. Epub 2023 Apr 10.
While encountering daily hassles is a normative experience, it poses a threat to individuals' daily affective well-being. However, physical activity engagement may help to reduce the current stress-related impact on affective well-being (i.e. stress buffering), which we investigate in this study. Furthermore, we examined the possible moderating role of people's global stress context (i.e. exposure to major life events and chronic stress) on this within-person stress-buffering effect.
We approached these ideas using six-times-a-day experience sampling assessments over a period of 22 days.
Drawing on a broad national sample of 156 middle-aged adults from the EE-SOEP-IS study, we aimed to elucidate the naturally occurring within-person dynamics of current stress, physical activity engagement, and momentary affect within individuals' everyday lives. Major life events and chronic stress were measured as between-person variables.
Multilevel analyses revealed significant within-person associations of current stress and physical activity engagement with momentary affect. Stress-related negative affect was lower when individuals engaged in physical activity, in accordance with the idea of a within-person stress-buffering effect of physical activity engagement. For individuals exposed to more severe major life events, the stress-buffering effect of physical activity engagement for negative affect was lower. Chronic stress did not moderate the within-person stress-buffering effect.
Overall, results add to the existing literature that links physical activity to increased stress resilience and emphasizes the need for taking the global between-person stress context into account.
虽然日常琐事是一种正常的体验,但它会威胁到个体的日常情感幸福感。然而,身体活动的参与可能有助于减轻当前与压力相关的对情感幸福感的影响(即压力缓冲),我们在本研究中对此进行了调查。此外,我们还研究了个体的全球压力环境(即重大生活事件和慢性压力的暴露)对这种个体内压力缓冲效应的可能调节作用。
我们通过在 22 天内每天进行六次的经验采样评估来研究这些想法。
利用 EE-SOEP-IS 研究中来自广泛的全国中年成年人的大样本,我们旨在阐明个体日常生活中当前压力、身体活动参与和瞬间情感的自然发生的个体内动态。重大生活事件和慢性压力作为个体间变量进行测量。
多层次分析显示,当前压力和身体活动参与与瞬间情感之间存在显著的个体内关联。当个体参与身体活动时,与压力相关的负面情绪会降低,这符合身体活动参与的个体内压力缓冲效应的观点。对于暴露于更严重的重大生活事件的个体,身体活动参与对负面情绪的压力缓冲效应较低。慢性压力并没有调节个体内的压力缓冲效应。
总体而言,结果增加了将身体活动与增加的压力弹性联系起来的现有文献,并强调了需要考虑个体间的全球压力环境。