G. Parfitt et al., RESPONSES TO PHYSICAL EXERTION IN ACTIVE AND INACTIVE MALES AND FEMALES, Journal of sport & exercise psychology, 16(2), 1994, pp. 178-186
An experiment is presented that investigates the relationship between
gender, exercise history, and psychological affect during and after ex
ercising at different workloads. High-active and low-active subjects r
eported their psychological affect in the last 30 s of and 5 min after
exercising at 60 and 90% VO2 max workloads. Results indicated that hi
gh-active subjects (both males and females) were significantly more po
sitive in the 90% workload condition than were the low-active group, b
ut there was no difference between the groups in the 60% workload cond
ition (p < .001). These results suggest that psychological affect in e
xercise settings is influenced by exercise history, workload, and time
when self-reported affect is requested.