Health or Happiness? What is the Impact of Physical Activity on the Individual?
By Simona Rasciute, P. Downward. 2010
203 citations recorded by the source corpus.
This paper models the effect that physical activity such as sports participation and active travel, through walking and cycling, has on self-reported health and well-being. The results show that physical activity and active travel mainly have a positive effect on both individual health and well-being. Although, cycling has health benefits, it also appears to involve some disutility, which requires further investigation.
Subfields: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Social Psychology, Transportation
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In Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
In Social Psychology
- Peter Dawson
- P. Downward
- Simona Rasciute
- C. Bickerton
- D. Wheatley
- C. Breuer
- Kirstin Hallmann
- Brad R. Humphreys
In Transportation
Citations in the corpus
- The Effects of Physical Activity on Social Interactions: The Case of Trust and Trustworthiness (2019, background): “See, among others, Biddle and Asare (2011); Di Bartolomeo and Papa (2016a); Gothe, Pontifex, Hillman, and McAuley (2013); Kirk, Downar, and Montague (2011); Lee and Park (2010); Penedo and Dahn (2005); Rasciute and Downward (2010); Wankel (1993); and Weatherly et al. (2009).”
- Does sport make you happy? An analysis of the well‐being derived from sports participation (2011, background): “Rasciute and Downward ( 2010 ) explore the impact of walking and cycling on well‐being as well as participation in forms of physical activity generally.”
- Is it Pleasure or Health from Leisure that We Benefit from Most? An Analysis of Well-Being Alternatives and Implications for Policy (2016, methodology): “It has been argued, for example in Rasciute and Downward (2010), that wellbeing should be analysed as an ordered magnitude, though this is debated by Ferrer-iCarbonell and Frijters(2004).”