TY - JOUR N2 - 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. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/109946/PDF/PPB%201-19%204-Kov%C3%A1csik,%20Szabo.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/109946 PY - 2019 IS - No 1 EP - 35 DO - 10.24425/ppb.2019.126015 KW - Activation KW - Affect KW - Exercise KW - emotion KW - Feeling state A1 - Kovácsik, Rita A1 - Szabo, Attila PB - Committee for Psychological Science PAS VL - vol. 50 DA - 2019.03.01 T1 - Dynamics of the Affective States During and After Cheerleading Training in Female Athletes SP - 29 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/109946 T2 - Polish Psychological Bulletin ER -