Affective phenomena, such as core affect, remembered pleasure, or forecasted pleasure, play a key role in promoting physical activity (PA) behaviour, especially among inpatients. The use of music has been shown to be a particularly cost-effective and low-friction approach to promoting positive affective valence during PA. However, interventions using music to improve exercise-related affective phenomena among inpatients are lacking. This study will aim to investigate an intervention that combines the effects of music with the "peak-end rule" on core affective responses (valence and arousal), remembered pleasure, and forecasted pleasure associated with exercise sessions among cardiac rehabilitation inpatients.
The primary objective of the present study will be to examine the effect of differentiated music exposure on core affective responses, ratings of perceived exertion and psychophysiological responses to moderate-intensity continuous training (MICT), as well as on associated remembered pleasure, exercise enjoyment, and forecasted pleasure. A secondary objective will be to assess the potential mediating effect of affective valence at the end of the MICT on remembered pleasure and exercise enjoyment. A third objective will be to assess the effect of MICT with or without music on an emotional rating task, together with pupillometric measures. Finally, the study will examine the influence of remembered pleasure on subsequent forecasted pleasure.
Individuals enrolled in an inpatient 3-week cardiac exercise-based rehabilitation programme
Age range 50-75 years
Can withstand the study protocol without undue risk
Able to provide written consent
Contraindication to physical activity in view of the health status
Presence of cognitive or psychological disorder
Hearing impairment with or without hearing aids
Crossover
Music listening during physical exercise
Other interventionExposure to music played at different phases of the physical activity
Affective valence during the moderate intensity continuous training
Mesured with filling scale (FS)
Affective arousal during the moderate-intensity continuous training
Affective arousal will be measured at five time points ( Minute 3, Minute 12, Minute 13, Minute 22, and Minute 25) using the Felt Arousal Scale (Svebak \& Murgatroyd, 1985), a single-item bipolar rating scale using the sentence "How aroused do you actually feel?" with possible responses ranging from 1 (low arousal) to 6 (high arousal).
Rating of perceived exertion during the moderate-intensity continuous training
Remembered pleasure will be measured 5 min after each training session using a visual analogy scale presented on a Samsung Galaxy Tab ranging from -100 (very unpleasant) to +100 (very pleasant) in intervals of 1 (Zenko et al., 2016). Participants will be asked to answer the following question: "How did the exercise session make you feel?" (Hutchinson et al., 2023).
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Elena Tessitore
Lead sponsor
University Hospital, Geneva
Sponsor institution
