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Boosts for walking: how humorous messages increase brisk walking among cognitively fatigued individuals

Authors: Michelle Symons, Heidi Vandebosch, Karolien Poels

Published in: BMC Public Health | Issue 1/2024

Abstract

Background

A well-studied internal barrier to regular physical activity, and more specifically brisk walking, is cognitive fatigue. However, thus far little research examined how cognitively fatigued individuals can be motivated to exercise, more specifically to engage in brisk walking. This study investigates whether humorous intervention messages might be an effective strategy to motivate cognitively fatigued individuals to brisk walk, and through which underlying processes.

Methods

An online experiment was performed in which variation in cognitive fatigue was induced through mental arithmetic questions. Afterwards, participants (n = 250) recruited through Prolific, randomly received either humorous or non-humorous intervention messages related to brisk walking. Potential mediators of the relations between physical activity, humour and cognitive fatigue were measured, were self-efficacy, self-control, and motivation.

Results

First, regression analyses confirmed that cognitive fatigue negatively influences brisk walking intentions and that the perceived humour of the intervention messages moderated this relationship. Second, results showed that self-control and self-efficacy are mediators explaining the relationship between cognitive fatigue and brisk walking intentions. Lastly, this study found that perceived humour of the intervention messages moderated the relationship between cognitive fatigue and self-control, indicating that perceptions of self-control were positively changed after receiving messages that were perceived as humorous compared to messages that were not perceived as humorous, subsequently increasing brisk walking intentions.

Conclusions

This study is the first to unravel the underlying relationship between humorous intervention messages and brisk walking intentions through positive changes in perceptions of self-control within a cognitively fatigued sample. Results of this study suggest that existing smartphone applications monitoring and promoting brisk walking should integrate tailored message strategies within their cues to brisk walk by implementing humour as a strategy to motivate users when they are cognitively fatigued.

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Brisk walking was defined as follows: a moderate-intensity physical activity where one walks at an average pace of 3.5 miles/hour - or, on average, 100 steps per minute. It increases heart rate and breathing rates but does not render one out of breath. A single brisk walk lasts 20–30 minutes.

Fatigue was explained as a combination of physical and cognitive fatigue, explaining this study was only interested in the cognitive part of fatigue, namely: Cognitive fatigue can be better defined as mental weakness - if one has been doing something tedious like reading or calculating numbers all day long, they would most likely feel mentally drained afterwards.

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Title: Boosts for walking: how humorous messages increase brisk walking among cognitively fatigued individuals
Authors: Michelle Symons
Heidi Vandebosch
Karolien Poels
Publication date: 01-12-2024
Publisher: BioMed Central
Keyword: Fatigue
Published in: BMC Public Health / Issue 1/2024
Electronic ISSN: 1471-2458
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-17464-z

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