Exercise-induced anxiolysis: a test of the "time out" hypothesis in high anxious females
Medicine & Science in Sports & ExercisePublished 1 July 1998
Michael Breus, Patrick J. O’Connor
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The hypothesis that anxiety reductions following exercise occur because exercise affords individuals a time out from daily worries is supported.
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Because the reduction in state anxiety following exercise was blocked in the Exercise/Study condition (t = -0.05, P = 0.97, d = 0.01) and the associated CIs included zero (unadjusted 0.1 +/- 3.4, adjusted 0.8 +/- 3.2), the findings support the hypothesis that anxiety reductions following exercise occur because exercise affords individuals a time out from daily worries.
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