Cardiorespiratory fitness predicts nearly all cognitive and psychosocial measures, with anxiety/insomnia predicted by horizontal jump and life satisfaction by fat mass¶

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q3 i? In stepwise linear regression, VO2max was the single predictor for most criteria; anxiety and insomnia was predicted by horizontal jump and life satisfaction by fat mass percentage. → Reigal 2020

Evidence¶

Reigal 2020¶

Reigal, R. E., Hernández-Mendo, A., Juárez-Ruiz de Mier, R., and Morales-Sánchez, V. (2020). Physical Exercise and Fitness Level Are Related to Cognitive and Psychosocial Functioning in Adolescents. Front. Psychol. 11:1777. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01777

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Stepwise linear regression analyses (Table 6) on the 208-adolescent sample found "The models obtained included a single variable, in most cases maximum oxygen consumption"; standardized betas ranged from −0.50 (GHQ-SS) to 0.39 (SYM), with GHQ-AI predicted by HJT (β = −0.35) and LS by FM% (β = −0.32).

"The models obtained included a single variable, in most cases maximum oxygen consumption (Table 6)."

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