Predicting Self-Reported Affective Responses to Exercise: An Examination of Individual Differences

Abstract

From the two models of personality, little evidence was found for personality dimensions predicting post-exercise affective responses. Limited support was also available for the two models of regional brain activity. For the models of regional brain activity, many of the results were in the opposite direction of what was hypothesized by the models. As a whole, there was invited support for these individual difference variables being used to predict affect following exercise. However, these variables were most likely to account for affective changes following exercise at the severe condition. This may suggest a dose-response relationship between individual difference variables and post-exercise affect and warrants future research.