@ARTICLE{Kovácsik_Rita_Dynamics_2019,
 author={Kovácsik, Rita and Szabo, Attila},
 volume={vol. 50},
 number={No 1},
 journal={Polish Psychological Bulletin},
 pages={29-35},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2019},
 publisher={Committee for Psychological Science PAS},
 abstract={Cheerleading is a new sport, practiced in 110 nations; since 2016 enjoys provisional Olympic status. Its leaders claim that it is a “happy” sport, but research on its psychological effects is lacking. In this field-study we examined core-affect, positive-affect, and negative-affect in 65 cheerleaders before, during, after, and one-hour after a cheerleading training. Core-affect was more positive during and immediately after training, but it tapered off one hour following the training when feeling states were still more positive than at baseline. Negative-affect declined linearly from baseline to one-hour following training when it became significantly lower than its previous values. Positive-affect showed quadratic dynamics, in parallel with arousal, being higher during and immediately after training than during baseline, or one-hour after training. These results demonstrate for the first time that cheerleading is a “happy” sport, which apart from the skill-development also yields positive psychological emotions both during and after training.},
 type={Article},
 title={Dynamics of the Affective States During and After Cheerleading Training in Female Athletes},
 URL={http://ochroma.man.poznan.pl/Content/109946/PDF/PPB%201-19%204-Kov%C3%A1csik,%20Szabo.pdf},
 doi={10.24425/ppb.2019.126015},
 keywords={Activation, Affect, Exercise, emotion, Feeling state},
}