Anticipatory and Anticipated Emotions in Regular and Non-regular Exercisers - A Qualitative Study.

ABSTRACT: Future-oriented emotions could influence our decisions in everyday life and help understand why some individuals are physically active whilst others are not. Current literature distinguishes between two future-oriented emotion constructs: anticipatory and anticipated emotions. While anticipatory emotions are currently experienced emotions about a future event, anticipated emotions refer to the emotions that a person is expected to experience when confronted with a future event. The main aims of the present study were (1) to identify and describe (a) categories of anticipatory emotions experienced before exercise, and (b) categories of anticipated emotions expected to be experienced during and after exercise, and (2) to develop a theoretical model of anticipated emotion categories. Sixteen

SUBMITTER: Feil K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9302565 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature