Effects of Physical Activity on psychological Change in Advanced Age: A Multivariate Meta-Analysis

Meng-Jia Wu, Betsy Jane Becker, Yael Netz

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Abstract

An example of multivariate meta-analysis is demonstrated by synthesizing the treatment effects of exercise of 15 groups on six mood state changes in elders measured by the Profile of Mood States (POMS) scale. Two different methods were used to analyze this multivariate dataset. The SAS codes for two set of the analyses were provided. Results showed that exercise has a modest and positive impact on elders mood change.

Original languageAmerican English
JournalJournal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods
Volume6
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - May 1 2007

Keywords

  • Multivariate meta-analysis
  • Mood State
  • POMS
  • Psychological change
  • exercise

Disciplines

  • Applied Statistics
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Statistical Theory
  • Econometrics
  • Statistics and Probability
  • Mathematics

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