“I just NEED to move…”: examining women’s passion for physical activity and its relationship with daily affect and vitality

Psychology of Well-Being

Theory, Research and Practice

Table 2 Descriptive statistics for baseline, daily experience sampling and endpoint variables

	Full sample			Harmoniously passionate			Obsessively passionate
	N	Mean	SD	N	Mean	SD	N	Mean	SD
Baseline characteristics
Age	60	42.75	5.56	33	43.45	6.27	27	41.89	4.51
Passion criteria/strength	60	5.84	.73	33	6.01	.66	27	5.62	.76
Harmonious passion	60	5.28	.96	33	5.77	.60	27	4.67	.99
Obsessive passion (log)	60	1.97 (.24)	1.11 (0.21)	33	1.43 (0.13)	.49 (0.14)	27	2.62 (0.34)	1.31 (0.22)
Experience sampling
Physical activity days
Intensity - RPE^a	455	14.61	2.17	248	14.22	1.99	207	15.08	2.29
Time (minutes)	520	70.70	40.53	282	69.52	42.38	238	70.10	38.30
HA Positive affect^b	560	29.81	8.99	304	30.51	9.00	256	28.98	8.93
LA Positive affect^c	560	16.53	3.87	304	17.34	3.98	256	15.58	3.51
HA Negative affect (freq)	560	12.29 (207)	3.98	304	12.47 (110)	4.36	256	12.07 (97)	3.46
LA Negative affect (freq)	560	11.14 (232)	4.64	304	10.69 (106)	4.73	256	11.65 (126)	4.48
Non-physical activity Days
HA Positive affect	175	25.59	7.83	96	28.00	8.00	79	22.67	6.57
LA Positive affect	175	14.10	4.09	96	14.94	4.22	79	13.09	3.71
HA Negative affect (freq)	175	15.34 (118)	7.16	96	15.93 (64)	8.42	79	14.63 (54)	5.18
LA Negative affect (freq)	175	12.60 (105)	5.11	96	12.63 (56)	5.47	79	12.57 (49)	4.67
Across Days
HA Positive affect across days^b	735	28.81	8.91	400	29.91	8.83	335	27.49	8.84
LA Positive affect across days^c	735	15.96	4.06	400	16.76	4.16	335	14.99	3.71
HA Negative affect across days	735	13.02 (325)	5.09	400	13.30 (174)	5.79	335	12.68 (151)	4.08
LA Negative affect across days	735	11.49 (337)	4.80	400	11.16 (162)	4.98	335	11.87 (175)	4.54
Endpoint LTEQ	60	52.65	18.55	33	49.71	13.91	27	56.33	22.74
Endpoint Vitality	60	71.08	11.90	33	74.96	11.95	27	66.34	10.15

Note. SD = Standard Deviation; RPE = Rating of Perceived Exertion; HA = High Activation; LA = Low Activation; freq = Frequency of values in the “high” category (i.e., number of observations labeled as “high”, for instance for HA negative affect, 207 out of 560 responses were coded as high or “1”); LTEQ = Godin Leisure Time Exercise Questionnaire.
^aBoth RPE and Time showed skewed distributions even after accounting for the influence of outliers. The variables were left untransformed since no subsequent analyses for these variables are presented in this paper.
^bICC (Intra-class correlation) of experience sampling HA positive affect: .66(PA days), .61 (across all days).
^cICC (Intra-class correlation) of experience sampling LA positive affect: .51 (PA days), .48 (across all days).