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JOURNAL OF WOMEN & AGING
Volume 32, Issue 6, Pages 672-683Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/08952841.2019.1607680
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Women; midlife; aging; leisure-time physical activity; affect
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Many women do not engage in regular physical activity and women's physical activity declines over the life cycle. The present study examines the association of regular leisure-time physical activity with affective experience among 881 middle-aged and older women from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States. In multiple linear regression and structural equation analyses, a higher level of leisure-time physical activity was related to more high-arousal and low-arousal positive affect and less high-arousal and low-arousal negative affect. Appreciating positive affective responses associated with physical activity can help to motivate women to engage in regular leisure-time physical activity.
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