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- Title
Long-Term Follow-up of Stressed Working Women: A Comparison of Aerobic Exercise and Progressive Relaxation.
- Authors
Long, Bonita C.; Haney, Colleen J.
- Abstract
The present study describes the results of a 14-month follow-up evaluation of 39 stressed working women randomly assigned to aerobic exercise (i.e., jogging) or progressive relaxation interventions. At this follow-up, both intervention groups reported significantly less anxiety and greater self-efficacy. In addition, subjects tended to increase their use of problem-focused coping as compared to emotion-focused coping, and 64% of them were still regularly using some structured form of relaxation or exercise. The proportion of subjects reaching clinically significant improvements was 24% at the end of treatment and 36% at the 14-month follow-up.
- Subjects
PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; WOMEN employees; AEROBIC exercises; RELAXATION for health; LIFE skills; SELF-efficacy
- Publication
Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 1988, Vol 10, Issue 4, p461
- ISSN
0895-2779
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1123/jsep.10.4.461