About this Research Topic
Exercise has been acknowledged as a highly effective approach to enhancing an individual’s mental health and emotional state. With the accelerated tempo of contemporary lifestyles along with heightened work-related demands, there is a growing emphasis on the significance of maintaining optimal physical and mental health. It is widely accepted that exercise constitutes an effective way in managing one’s health. Studies have indicated that both one-time exercise and long-term physical exercise can improve negative emotions such as anxiety and depression. Such benefits could prove advantageous in alleviating mental stress and enhancing overall life satisfaction.
Despite the compelling health benefits of exercise, understanding how exercise interventions work at both the physiological and psychological levels was a research topic that needs to be explored in depth. The physiological responses of the body were closely related to psychological behavior, so this research topic was constructed to describe how sports psychologists use techniques such as psychological and physiological measurements (e.g., EEG, EMG, skin temperature, and HRV) to assess the impact of exercise interventions on emotional health and emotional processing.
This research topic aims to call for scientific studies on the promoting effects of an exercise intervention on emotional health and emotional processing, and related physiological and psychological mechanisms to promote our understanding of the benefits of exercise.
We welcome original research and reviews as well as other article types addressing, including, but not limited to, the following topics:
• The relationship between exercise interventions/physical activity and emotional health and emotional processing (e.g., emotional arousal, emotional recognition, emotional memory, and emotional regulation).
• Comparison of emotional control ability between exercise and non-exercise groups (e.g., sedentary groups)
• The effect of exercise dose (exercise intensity, time, mode, frequency, cycle) on the improvement of emotional state.
• Propose the optimal “dose” of exercise intervention from the perspective of improving physiological and psychological mechanisms.
• Changes in physiological and psychological indexes related to emotion during exercise.
• Use physiological measurement techniques to understand mental processes in exercise.
• Recent developments in the field of exercise and emotion.
We hope that this research topic will trigger more thinking and advanced research in our common pursuit of emotional health and improvement of emotional processing ability.
Despite the compelling health benefits of exercise, understanding how exercise interventions work at both the physiological and psychological levels was a research topic that needs to be explored in depth. The physiological responses of the body were closely related to psychological behavior, so this research topic was constructed to describe how sports psychologists use techniques such as psychological and physiological measurements (e.g., EEG, EMG, skin temperature, and HRV) to assess the impact of exercise interventions on emotional health and emotional processing.
This research topic aims to call for scientific studies on the promoting effects of an exercise intervention on emotional health and emotional processing, and related physiological and psychological mechanisms to promote our understanding of the benefits of exercise.
We welcome original research and reviews as well as other article types addressing, including, but not limited to, the following topics:
• The relationship between exercise interventions/physical activity and emotional health and emotional processing (e.g., emotional arousal, emotional recognition, emotional memory, and emotional regulation).
• Comparison of emotional control ability between exercise and non-exercise groups (e.g., sedentary groups)
• The effect of exercise dose (exercise intensity, time, mode, frequency, cycle) on the improvement of emotional state.
• Propose the optimal “dose” of exercise intervention from the perspective of improving physiological and psychological mechanisms.
• Changes in physiological and psychological indexes related to emotion during exercise.
• Use physiological measurement techniques to understand mental processes in exercise.
• Recent developments in the field of exercise and emotion.
We hope that this research topic will trigger more thinking and advanced research in our common pursuit of emotional health and improvement of emotional processing ability.
Keywords: exercise, emotional health, emotional processing, psychological, physiological
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