Exercise makes people feel better but people are inactive: Paradox or artifact?

Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 498-517

  Backhouse, Susan H ^a   Ekkekakls, Pantelelmon ^b   Biddle, Stuart J H ^c   Foskett, Andrew ^d,e   Williams, Clyde ^c  

^a LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^e MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Adherence; Affect; Circumplex; Methodology; Physical activity; Pleasure

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547965900     PISSN: 08952779     EISSN: 15432904     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/jsep.29.4.498     Document Type: Article

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