Improving People's Relationship with Exercise

About the lecture

In this lecture, we think about how people’s relationship with exercise can be improved, focusing in particular on: (i) the three basic psychological needs as competence, autonomy and relatedness, in the context of sport and exercise; (ii) Edmunds’ research on the impact of exercise prescriptions on wellbeing, finding that mental health status was more positive after the study period; (iii) the role that productive, motivational interviewing played in improving the mental health and motivations to exercise, of the participants in Edmunds’ study; (iv) the effectiveness of rational, emotive behaviour therapy (REBT) on people suffering with exercise addiction.

About the lecturer

Dr Anthony Miller is a lecturer in the School of Health, Science and Wellbeing at Staffordshire University. Dr Miller’s research interests are in understanding human performance and wellbeing under pressure, with a particular focus on the social identity approach to leadership. Some of Dr Miller’s recent publications include 'Psychological distress across sport participation groups: The mediating effects of secondary irrational beliefs on the relationship between primary irrational beliefs and symptoms of anxiety, and depression' (2019) and 'Test-retest reliability of the irrational performance beliefs inventory' (2018).