Time-varying associations between loneliness and physical activity: Evidence from repeated daily life assessments in an adult lifespan sample.

ABSTRACT: Physical activity is a behavior that promotes physical and mental health; yet physical activity has decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic. To promote health during times of challenge, it is important to identify potential barriers to this key health behavior, such as loneliness. This brief report extends previous research on physical activity and loneliness that mainly focused on between-person differences to examine their time-varying associations at the within-person level using repeated daily life assessments. From April 2020 to August 2020, data were collected from a sample of 139 community-dwelling Canadian adults (M _age = 40.65 years, SD = 18.37; range = 18-83 years). Each evening for 10 consecutive days, participants reported their loneliness, number of ste

SUBMITTER: Broen T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9909092 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature