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Fitness And Exercise As Linked To Overall Stress And Physiological Stress Responses, Justine Monthony
Fitness And Exercise As Linked To Overall Stress And Physiological Stress Responses, Justine Monthony
Honors Theses
Exercise negatively correlates with physiological stress responses, but there is less research on short-term stress hormones for this response. For this thesis, I hypothesized that exercise and fitness levels would be negatively correlated with perceived stress and with physiological stress from a standard stressor. Undergraduate college participants reported their chronic stress, current mood, past week’s physical activity (amount and intensity), perceived physical fitness, and demographic characteristics. Participants also engaged in a social stress task, on which they had limited time to prepare a speech with no notice or resources that was given in front of peers who were ostensibly analyzing …