Volume 53, Issue 5, May 2019

Mental fatigue alters the amount of physical effort people plan to invest in an exercise workout and follow through with those intentions by doing less work and exercising at a lower heart rate.

Following periods of the day with elevated stress, mothers were less encouraging of physical activity and more restrictive of sedentary screen behaviors among their children.

The health effects of trait neuroticism, defined by being dispositionally anxious and upset, appear to be similar across different individual differences, like personality and health.

Smokers attending community-based stop smoking programs who were encouraged to reward themselves if they quit successfully were more likely to remain quit than were smokers who did not self-incentivise.

Adherence to high-volume aerobic exercise was more challenging than for moderate-volume aerobic exercise but the predictors of adherence were similar.

More optimistic college students showed smaller increases in systolic blood pressure and heart rate, compared to less optimistic students, while re-experiencing anger- and sadness-inducing events.

When conducting tobacco control research, online convenience samples may provide comparable experimental and correlational findings as national probability samples, although prevalence estimates may be biased.

Older English adults who tended to plan for their long-term future survived longer than those with more short-term planning horizons.

A school-based intervention did not increase moderate-to-vigorous physical activity among low-active, underserved adolescent girls at post-intervention or 9-months post-intervention. Continued work on addressing the needs of this population is needed.