@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://czasopisma.pan.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}, }