Cover Image

The effects of daily gratitude writing and self-paced high intensity interval training on regulating emotional distress, sustained attention and hedonic perception among students in Universiti Sains Malaysia, Health Campus

A 2017’s cross-sectional study found that more than 80% of 287 Malaysian adolescents were either, depressed, stressed or experiencing anxiety with university students have being identified as the higher risk group for developing those mental health challenges. Due to the transitional phase adoles...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sivapragasam, Kavitha A/P
Format: Monograph
Language:English
Published: Pusat Pengajian Sains Kesihatan, Universiti Sains Malaysia 2021
Subjects:
R Medicine
Online Access:http://eprints.usm.my/51134/1/KAVITHA%20AP%20SIVAPRAGASAM-24%20pages.pdf
http://eprints.usm.my/51134/
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
id my.usm.eprints.51134
record_format eprints
spelling my.usm.eprints.51134 http://eprints.usm.my/51134/ The effects of daily gratitude writing and self-paced high intensity interval training on regulating emotional distress, sustained attention and hedonic perception among students in Universiti Sains Malaysia, Health Campus Sivapragasam, Kavitha A/P R Medicine A 2017’s cross-sectional study found that more than 80% of 287 Malaysian adolescents were either, depressed, stressed or experiencing anxiety with university students have being identified as the higher risk group for developing those mental health challenges. Due to the transitional phase adolescents face, there has been inadequate coping strategies towards stress. However, positive psychology has highlighted the potential impact that physical activities and the act of expressing gratitude has towards managing psychological challenges. Hence, this study aims to determine the effects of daily gratitude writing and self-paced high intensity interval (HIIT) training towards regulating emotional distress, sustained attention and hedonic perception among 46 students in Universiti Sains Malaysia, Health Campus. The selfdetermination theory and the ‘Broaden-and-Build’ theory of positive emotions contributed significantly to the development of this study. The RESET app – a mobile application was introduced as a gratitude journaling tool while quantitative data was obtained through the administration of a pre-post-Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale-21 Questionnaire (DASS-21), Borg’s Scale for Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE), Feeling Scale, and the Digital Vigilance Test (DVT). Upon completing the 8-week study, the results showed that there were differences between the pre-post intervention for DASS-21 and RPE scores within the 4 experimental groups but the results were not significant (p > .050). However, there was a significant decrease in errors made in the DVT (F (1,42) = 17.057, p = .000) while there was a significant increase in the Feeling Scale scores for gratitude journaling within participants (F (2,40) = 3.879, p = .029). Due to the study’s novelty, the results serve as a launch pad for future works in the efforts of integrating physical activities and positive psychology interventions towards effective psychological management and nurturing among the Malaysian youth. Pusat Pengajian Sains Kesihatan, Universiti Sains Malaysia 2021-06 Monograph NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/51134/1/KAVITHA%20AP%20SIVAPRAGASAM-24%20pages.pdf Sivapragasam, Kavitha A/P (2021) The effects of daily gratitude writing and self-paced high intensity interval training on regulating emotional distress, sustained attention and hedonic perception among students in Universiti Sains Malaysia, Health Campus. Other. Pusat Pengajian Sains Kesihatan, Universiti Sains Malaysia. (Submitted)
institution Universiti Sains Malaysia
building Hamzah Sendut Library
collection Institutional Repository
continent Asia
country Malaysia
content_provider Universiti Sains Malaysia
content_source USM Institutional Repository
url_provider http://eprints.usm.my/
language English
topic R Medicine
spellingShingle R Medicine
Sivapragasam, Kavitha A/P
The effects of daily gratitude writing and self-paced high intensity interval training on regulating emotional distress, sustained attention and hedonic perception among students in Universiti Sains Malaysia, Health Campus
description A 2017’s cross-sectional study found that more than 80% of 287 Malaysian adolescents were either, depressed, stressed or experiencing anxiety with university students have being identified as the higher risk group for developing those mental health challenges. Due to the transitional phase adolescents face, there has been inadequate coping strategies towards stress. However, positive psychology has highlighted the potential impact that physical activities and the act of expressing gratitude has towards managing psychological challenges. Hence, this study aims to determine the effects of daily gratitude writing and self-paced high intensity interval (HIIT) training towards regulating emotional distress, sustained attention and hedonic perception among 46 students in Universiti Sains Malaysia, Health Campus. The selfdetermination theory and the ‘Broaden-and-Build’ theory of positive emotions contributed significantly to the development of this study. The RESET app – a mobile application was introduced as a gratitude journaling tool while quantitative data was obtained through the administration of a pre-post-Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale-21 Questionnaire (DASS-21), Borg’s Scale for Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE), Feeling Scale, and the Digital Vigilance Test (DVT). Upon completing the 8-week study, the results showed that there were differences between the pre-post intervention for DASS-21 and RPE scores within the 4 experimental groups but the results were not significant (p > .050). However, there was a significant decrease in errors made in the DVT (F (1,42) = 17.057, p = .000) while there was a significant increase in the Feeling Scale scores for gratitude journaling within participants (F (2,40) = 3.879, p = .029). Due to the study’s novelty, the results serve as a launch pad for future works in the efforts of integrating physical activities and positive psychology interventions towards effective psychological management and nurturing among the Malaysian youth.
format Monograph
author Sivapragasam, Kavitha A/P
author_facet Sivapragasam, Kavitha A/P
author_sort Sivapragasam, Kavitha A/P
title The effects of daily gratitude writing and self-paced high intensity interval training on regulating emotional distress, sustained attention and hedonic perception among students in Universiti Sains Malaysia, Health Campus
title_short The effects of daily gratitude writing and self-paced high intensity interval training on regulating emotional distress, sustained attention and hedonic perception among students in Universiti Sains Malaysia, Health Campus
title_full The effects of daily gratitude writing and self-paced high intensity interval training on regulating emotional distress, sustained attention and hedonic perception among students in Universiti Sains Malaysia, Health Campus
title_fullStr The effects of daily gratitude writing and self-paced high intensity interval training on regulating emotional distress, sustained attention and hedonic perception among students in Universiti Sains Malaysia, Health Campus
title_full_unstemmed The effects of daily gratitude writing and self-paced high intensity interval training on regulating emotional distress, sustained attention and hedonic perception among students in Universiti Sains Malaysia, Health Campus
title_sort effects of daily gratitude writing and self-paced high intensity interval training on regulating emotional distress, sustained attention and hedonic perception among students in universiti sains malaysia, health campus
publisher Pusat Pengajian Sains Kesihatan, Universiti Sains Malaysia
publishDate 2021
url http://eprints.usm.my/51134/1/KAVITHA%20AP%20SIVAPRAGASAM-24%20pages.pdf
http://eprints.usm.my/51134/
_version_ 1724074416322641920
score 13.211869

Similar Items