Impact of Auditory Listening on Emotional States in Self-paced Outdoor Running

Klemens Weigl, Klemens Weigl, Sinja Becker, Karolin Bosch, Nhien Thai, Andreas Riener

2020

Abstract

Studies have shown that listening to music may evoke positive emotions when running. In recent years, the growing trend of listening to audiobooks is also inevitably influencing running. However, to date, there has been little research on the use of audiobooks in self-paced outdoor running. Therefore, our objective is to investigate whether self-paced outdoor running with auditory stimuli such as music and audiobooks may elicit different emotional states when compared to running with no-audio. Consequently, we adopted a repeated-measures design with three different counter-balanced conditions: music, audiobook, and no-audio. Thereby, thirty-two recreationally active female and male runners participated in a 10-minute running trial in each condition. We assessed the impact of auditory stimuli and emotional states with the Sports Emotion Questionnaire and the Brunel Music Rating Inventory-2. Our results of the self-report questionnaires indicate that running with music is rated with substantially greater values when compared to the audiobook condition. Interestingly, our findings uncover no meaningful difference among the self-rated emotional state dimensions anxiety, dejection, excitement, anger, and happiness across all three conditions, respectively. Hence, we conclude that running with no-audio may evoke roughly the same emotional states as when compared to running with music or audiobooks.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Weigl K., Weigl K., Becker S., Bosch K., Thai N. and Riener A. (2020). Impact of Auditory Listening on Emotional States in Self-paced Outdoor Running.In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Sport Sciences Research and Technology Support - Volume 1: icSPORTS, ISBN 978-989-758-481-7, pages 189-196. DOI: 10.5220/0009980201890196

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsports20,
author={Klemens Weigl and Klemens Weigl and Sinja Becker and Karolin Bosch and Nhien Thai and Andreas Riener},
title={Impact of Auditory Listening on Emotional States in Self-paced Outdoor Running},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Sport Sciences Research and Technology Support - Volume 1: icSPORTS,},
year={2020},
pages={189-196},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009980201890196},
isbn={978-989-758-481-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Sport Sciences Research and Technology Support - Volume 1: icSPORTS,
TI - Impact of Auditory Listening on Emotional States in Self-paced Outdoor Running
SN - 978-989-758-481-7
AU - Weigl K.
AU - Weigl K.
AU - Becker S.
AU - Bosch K.
AU - Thai N.
AU - Riener A.
PY - 2020
SP - 189
EP - 196
DO - 10.5220/0009980201890196