Publications by authors named "Laura Buchner"
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- Exercise intensity and perceived autonomy are key in determining how individuals feel about exercise and their likelihood to stick with it.
- The study analyzed the effects of two different 8-week running programs on young women, focusing on how these programs influenced their feelings of vitality and fatigue.
- Results showed that while immediate feelings of vitality improved with positive running experiences, there were no significant long-term changes in vitality or fatigue over the 8 weeks, supporting the dual-mode theory of affective response.
Lacewings have been suggested to be a relict group. This means that the group of lacewings, Neuroptera, should have been more diverse in the past, which also applies to many ingroups of Neuroptera. Psychopsidae, the group of silky lacewings, is one of the ingroups of Neuroptera which is relatively species-poor in the modern fauna.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSubjective vitality describes the positive feeling of experiencing physical and mental energy, which can lead to purposive actions, but no German instruments exist with action-oriented verbiage: This work supports the development and modification of already existing German Subjective Vitality Scales and provides further evidence for its psychometric properties. In a first step ( = 56) two modified (action-oriented) short-forms were developed. An extension of time perspectives (past, present, future) should also enrich the scale by enhancing the accuracy of self-reports.
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