title: A Conceptual Neurocognitive Affect-Related Model for the Promotion of Exercise Among Obese Adults.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Obesity remains a prominent societal threat and burden despite well-promoted prevention and treatment strategies, such as regular engagement in physical activity. Obese individuals, in particular, may be prone to inactivity as a result of a variety of displeasure-related parameters resulting from exercise, such as dyspnea, for instance.
  
  
  RESULTS
  This brief conceptual review discusses the integral roles of exercise-induced affective responses within a novel conceptual-based neurocognitive affect-related model. Specifically, this model includes three pathways: (1) pathway A proposes that neurocognition, and especially, executive function-based cognition, may play an influential role in fostering exercise-induced affective responses, (2) pathway B connects an individual's affective response from exercise to their future exercise behavior, and (3) pathway C suggests a cyclical, bi-directional relationship with executive function indirectly influencing future exercise behavior via affective responses to exercise, and exercise itself playing an important role in executive functioning. Future studies should empirically test this model, which may have utility for promoting exercise among the obese population.
authors.affiliation: Physical Activity Epidemiology Laboratory, Exercise Psychology Laboratory, Department of Health, Exercise Science and Recreation Management, The University of Mississippi, University, MS, 38677, USA.
authors.forename: Meghan K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Edwards
authors.affiliation: Physical Activity Epidemiology Laboratory, Exercise Psychology Laboratory, Department of Health, Exercise Science and Recreation Management, The University of Mississippi, University, MS, 38677, USA.
authors.forename: Ovuokerie
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Addoh
authors.affiliation: Developmental Neurobiology and Behavioral Laboratory, Department of Biology and Chemistry, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA, 91702, USA.
authors.forename: Skyla M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Herod
authors.affiliation: Behavioral Medicine Lab, School of Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education, The University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, V8P 5C2, Canada.
authors.forename: Ryan E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Rhodes
authors.affiliation: Jackson Heart Study Vanguard Center of Oxford, Physical Activity Epidemiology Laboratory, Exercise Psychology Laboratory, Department of Health, Exercise Science, and Recreation Management, The University of Mississippi, 229 Turner Center, University, MS, 38677, USA. pdloprin@olemiss.edu.
authors.forename: Paul D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Loprinzi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect / Q000502:physiology; D056344:Executive Function / Q000502:physiology; D005081:Exercise Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009765:Obesity / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*
keywords: Affective response; Cognition; Displeasure; Executive function; Physical activity