The Impact of Exercise and Hydration on Mood

Can Exercise cure depression?

• Exercise is a fantastic way to boost mood to start or end the day in a good mindset

Exercise

• Construct definition
  • From the dictionary, exercise is “activity requiring physical effort, carried out to sustain or improve health and fitness”
• Operational definition
  • I manipulated exercise by placing participants into categories of either one minute of push-ups or thirty seconds of push-ups

Water

• Construct definition
  • water is a clear liquid that is used for drinking and cooking, or makes up features of our earths geographic profile or even our own bodies.
• Operational definition
  • I manipulated water by randomly assigning some participants to drink 8oz of water or not to drink water

Mood

• Construct definition
  • mood is a state of mind that can effect mental health. Mood can be positive, negative, and neutral. This is different from emotions but can factor into emotions.
• Operational definition
  • To measure mood, I instructed participants to complete five questions looking at current mood and wellbeing after completing the other design elements to explore impact.

Hypotheses

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My Figure

Discussion

• 1 Limitation is the small sample size
• 1 Strength is the correct data analysis tests were run
• This test’s implications could lead to exercise as a treatment plan.

Final Slide

• Exercise is important for health, both physical and mental. Staying hydrated while exercising is important to not lose the mood boosting effects.

• An apple a day keeps the doctor away, but an exercise a day is even better!