The effect of exercise on daily minor stress

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: Stress can be induced from minor daily life event, and it is widely accepted that this daily minor stress is better predictive factor for relationship between disease and stress. In a number of laboratory studies, investigator reported that perception of stress can be reduced by physical exercise. So in this study, we observed relationship between exercise and stress from minor daily life event, and tried to clarify the effect of exercise on daily stress. METHODS: Volunteer was recruited from health promotion center of one university hospital. and they were doing regular exercise in more than three days per week. Participants completed measures of daily stress inventory and amount of daily exercise for seven days. To compare the daily stress amount between exercise day and no exercise day, we used repeated measures analysis of variance. We used the Wilcoxon signed rank test to compare difference of stress in different sex and different trait anxiety group. RESULTS: There was significant difference in appraisal of daily stress between exercise days and no exercise days. The amount of daily stress was significantly reduced in continuous low level of anxiety group and male by exercise. CONCLUSION: Exercise is associated with a reduction of daily stress appraisal from minor life event. And there is different effect of exercise on daily minor stress in the different anxiety level group and different sex group.