Exercise-associated “anxiogenesis” and “anxiolysis”?
“Anxiogenesis”?
- Pitts & McClure, 1967: lactate - anxiety link
- Morgan & Ellickson, 1989: not “distress”, just “eustress”
- Raglin & Wilson, 1996: anxiety-provoking sensations (e.g., dyspnea) due to anaerobic threshold
“Anxiolysis”?
- Many hypotheses, none prevailing [perhaps, more relevant to global “feel-better” phenomenon, not specifically to anxiety reduction].
- Morgan, 1984: “not clear why state anxiety decreases following acute vigorous physical activity”