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The relationship between sedentary behaviour and state anxiety in university students : an experience sampling study
Vorhauer, J. (2022) The relationship between sedentary behaviour and state anxiety in university students : an experience sampling study.
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| Abstract: | Background: Excessive sedentary behaviour has been shown to have detrimental effects on anxiety. This finding is especially relevant for highly sedentary groups, such as university students. While sedentary time has been shown to have a positive relationship with trait anxiety and anxiety disorders, research has paid little attention to state anxiety. Furthermore, it has not been tested whether there is a difference between mentally active and mentally passive sedentary behaviours. Similarly, no research has yet tested the influence of socially active sedentary behaviours. Hence, this paper aimed to investigate the relationship between the different kinds of sedentary behaviour and state anxiety in university students. Method: An experience sampling study was conducted over nine days with 37 university students (Mage = 20.68, SDage = 2.19, 73% female). Participants received three daily surveys on their Ethica App, measuring their level of state anxiety and their sedentary time. Visualised estimated marginal means and linear mixed models tested the associations between sedentary time and state anxiety. Results: No significant relationship was found between state anxiety and total sedentary time. Similarly, no significant relationships were found between state anxiety and mentally active or socially active sedentary time. Mentally passive sedentary was found to have a negative effect on state anxiety, B = -0.11, SE = 0.05, F(1, 632.303) = 4.63, p = .03. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 77 psychology |
| Programme: | Psychology BSc (56604) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/89387 |
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