How does exercising make you feel? The associations between positive and negative affect, life satisfaction, self-esteem, and vitality

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between regular physical exercise and affective responses behaviour, investigate with life satisfaction, self-esteem, vitality. In total, 264 Portuguese exercisers (female = 157) aged 18 69 years (M 12.93; SD 1.49) were considered for analysis in study. Participants a mean year experience 5.73 (SD 3.19). Looking at results, structural model displayed acceptable fit data: ?2(314) 515.904; p < .001; CFI .928; TLI .919; RMSEA .049 [.042, .057]. Overall, significant direct effects found as theoretically proposed, namely: frequency positive association affect; affect positively associated subjective vitality; and, negative negatively correlated Exercise had indirect effect on vitality via affect, but not affect.