Exercise and Depression: Causal Sequence Using Cross-Lagged Panel Correlation Analysis

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dc.contributor.advisorAndrews, David Len_US
dc.contributor.authorScott, Virginia Anneen_US
dc.contributor.departmentKinesiologyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-02-19T07:04:42Z
dc.date.available2010-02-19T07:04:42Z
dc.date.issued2009en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study sought to determine what kind of causal relationship, if any, exists between exercise and depression. A university student population (N = 178) was given the Godin Leisure Time Exercise Questionnaire and the Beck Depression Inventory-II at two time points separated by approximately one month. Cross-lagged panel correlation was used to make causal inferences based on the strength of the temporal relationships. After meeting the assumptions of synchronicity and stationarity, there was no significant difference between the cross-lagged correlations (ZPF = -0.4599, p = 0.65). Thus, no single causal pathway was dominant. While equal cross-lagged correlations can indicate spuriousness, it can also signify reciprocal causation. Exercise was not clearly the cause of reductions in depression, but neither was depression clearly the cause of physical inactivity. More complex causal pathways, such as reciprocal causation, warrant further investigation.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/9982
dc.subject.pqcontrolledHealth Sciences, Generalen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledHealth Sciences, Mental Healthen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolleddepressionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledexerciseen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledmajor depressive disorderen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledmental healthen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledphysical activityen_US
dc.titleExercise and Depression: Causal Sequence Using Cross-Lagged Panel Correlation Analysisen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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