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Exercise for Mood and Anxiety Disorders: The State-of-the Science
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The use of exercise as an intervention for mood and anxiety disorders is attractive for many reasons. Exercise can be free and immediately available to everyone. This is particularly important give...
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Depressive affect is reduced by nonaerobic exercise.
“Research has also shown that depressive affect is reduced by components of yoga, such as meditation (Hofmann, Sawyer, Witt, & Oh, 2010) and nonaerobic exercise (Powers, Asmundson, & Smits, 2015).”
From A mindful yoga intervention for young women with major depressive disorder: Design and baseline sample characteristics of a randomized controlled trial (2020) · cites this paper as Powers, Asmundson, & Smits, 2015
The main text (page unavailable) says physical exercise reduces suffering from mood disorders, which supports the general exercise–mood link. Its discussion of nonaerobic resistance training reports reduced anxiety sensitivity, not depressive affect; its discussion of yoga concerns distress intolerance. The copy therefore does not establish the claimed effect specifically for nonaerobic exercise. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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Metadata
- Authors
- Powers, M. B., Asmundson, G. J. G., & Smits, J. A. J.
- Affiliations
- The University of Texas at Austin (US)
- University of Regina (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Powers, Mark B.
- Venue
- Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2015-06-09
- Volume
- 44
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 237-239
- ISSN
- 1650-6073 (ISSN-L)
- 1651-2316
- PMC
- PMC4545646
- OpenAlex
- W1560616991
- Cited by
- 49
- References
- 22
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 2
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- University of Regina
- National Institutes of Health (5r01da027533-04)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01-DA027533, K01DA035930)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Physical Activity and Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Keywords
- physical activity, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, exercise intervention, depression, anxiety
- MeSH terms
- Anxiety Disorders, Exercise Therapy, Humans, Mood Disorders
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