A Study on, the Impact of Exercise on Mental Well-being

Introduction
Mental-wellbeing means, how we respond to the ups and downs of our lives. It includes the
acceptance of and dependency on emotions, feelings, thoughts, and behaviors. A healthy
mental well-being is how we face emotional and conscious difficulties with courage and
determination in our daily lives. These difficulties include relationship problems, financial,
institutional, organizational, breaking up with loved ones, loss in businesses, and other
problems that are normally faced by any individual and these difficulties have a great impact
and disturbance on our mental well-being. Due to these difficulties, mental illness has
surrounded us. Mental illness is a common disease around the globe that is not stoppable due
to the negligence and nonseriousness regarding mental well-being by people of this era.
Anthony D LA Montagne, in his research titled “Workplace mental health: developing an
integrated intervention approach” states that, in the globe, people are emphasizing accepting
the need to focus on mental well-being and to prevent mental illness (LaMontagne et al.,
2014). Still, most people just think of their physical and biological health, but they don’t focus their impacts on mental well-being, for instance; Stress, connection with others, Sleep,
exercise, etc. Here we chose one variable (Exercise) and its impact on Mental Well-being. So,
we can interpret that, our study aims to determine the impact of exercise on mental
wellbeing. In conclusion, we think that exercise has a great and positive impact on healthy
mental well-being and is a good treatment to avoid mental illness.
Problem statement
Mental well-being is an integral component of well-being which helps in decision-making and
deals with stress, and depression, realizing their abilities, learning well to work and
contribute to their community (Mental health, 2022). Currently, people’s nonseriousness is a
huge problem regarding mental well-being and illnesses. According to the World Health
Organization (WHO), “1 in every 8 people in the world live in mental disorder”. These
disorders include Anxiety (In 2019, 301 million people were living with an anxiety disorder
including 58 million children and adolescents), Depression (In 2019, 280 million people were
living with depression, including 23 million children and adolescents), Bipolar (In 2019, 40
million people experienced bipolar disorder) and many others (Mental Disorder, 2022).
These are very huge numbers but people still don’t show any seriousness about it. So, our
study is to find out the impact of exercise on mental well-being and its significance.
Research Question of the Study
How does regular physical exercise influence the mental well-being of individuals?
Research Objective of the Study
The study aims to find out the impacts of exercise on mental well-being.
Variables of the Study
1. The research study contains two main variables, Mental Well-being (Dependent
variable) and Exercise (Independent variable).
Exercise
Mental Wellbeing
Hypothesis of the Study
1. Physical activity has a positive impact on Mental Well-being and it helps to reduce
depression and anxiety.
Literature review
World Health Organization defines exercise as physical activities generally termed as it’s a
movement produced by the body’s muscles with the expenditure of energy (WHO, 2013). We
can define physical practice as a subpart of physical activities that are planned to improve
health and well-being. It is based on some international research that the use of exercise is a
medium for health promotion (Edwards, 2006). Physical activity is every human’s basic need all over the world it maintains a healthy lifestyle. Healthy people can build a healthy nation
and a healthy woman can provide a healthy generation to a nation (Smith, 2000).
Life is a name of struggle to survive and have a basic need to complete health, strange, and
well-being which is an unrealizable goal (Pretorius, 1998). Many quantitative and qualitative
methods are used to describe the experience of exercise, and what it has significance for
people, also measure how changes result from it and what changes result from it (Berger,
(1994)). It has been proven that exercise has to benefit the population in terms of mental
health and well-being (Stathopoulou et al., 2006). Life quality can be improved by exercise
through social interactions, meaningful time usage, and purposeful activities (Alexandratos
et al., 2012). Quality of life term was defined as; it’s an inclusion of well-being and it is
functioning health of the state of anybody. Functioning is also characterized capability of
carrying out the daily routine living and physical ability. And well-being is integrated by a
healthy body and emotional states self-concept and also global perceptions linked with life
satisfaction (Stewart et al., 1991).
It is confirmed through many studies that there is a positive correlation between exercise and
mental well-being specifically in university students (Arias-Palencia et al., 2015). Research
reveals a link between exercise and improved concentration and mod through physical
exercise such as improved blood flow, facilitated the release of healing hormones, and
inhibited release of degenerating hormones (Austin, 2014). Based on research we can say
that physical activity is a cause of the reduction of depression and anxiety symptoms (Biddle
& Asare, 2011). This time it is clear that good health is important for quality of life and ideal
performances. People are facilitated to maintain and improve their health and wellness.
Exercise also adds a pleasing basis for a healthy lifestyle (Katalin).
Methodology of the study
The purpose of the study is to determine the impact of exercise on mental well-being. The
study is conducted with a quantitative research design. Therefore, designed a questionnaire
and conducted it through the survey method. The population of the study will be those
elements who are engaged with physical activities in different institutions and other common
people who are active in physical activity. As we know, it will not be easy to survey a whole
population. So, the decision was made to select a sample size for convenience. The minimum
sample size consisted of 30 subjects. Furthermore, the following methods and procedures
were used in the research project:
Data Collection Methods:
Prefer to use the survey method and the data was collected through a questionnaire.
Sampling Technique:
Convenience sampling technique is used which is a type of non-probability sampling.
Data Analyses Technique:
Data analysis techniques include correlation and regression tools which are used to analyze
the data. Moreover, to run these tools, Microsoft Excel and IBM SPSS Statistics software were
helpful