Anxiety Disorders
What are some of the primary forms or types of anxiety (or anxiety disorders)?
List some of the psychological and/or physiological symptoms of anxiety.
Differentiate between state and trait forms of anxiety.
What is known, from cross-sectional and prospective studies, regarding the association between (lack of) physical activity and anxiety?
Describe the mechanism you believe best explains how exercise leads to anxiety reduction.
Can exercise be useful in the treatment of clinical anxiety? What evidence exists to support your answer?
What are the possible measurement problems of anxiety that may have led to inaccurate conclusions surrounding the relationship between anaerobic exercise (resistance training) and anxiety?
What hypothesis for explaining the exercise–anxiety relationship relies on changes in temperature?
The findings from the Bahrke & Morgan study (1978; see figure) have been used as support for which of the exercise-mental health hypotheses?
