Skiing and Thinking About It: Moment-to-Moment and Retrospective Analysis of Emotions in an Extreme Sport
Happiness is typically reported as an important reason for participating in challenging activities like extreme sport. While in the middle of the activity, however, participants do not seem particularly happy. So where does the happiness come from? The article proposes some answers from a study of f...
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| author | Audun Hetland Joar Vittersø Simen Oscar Bø Wie Eirik Kjelstrup Matthias Mittner Tove Irene Dahl |
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| description | Happiness is typically reported as an important reason for participating in challenging activities like extreme sport. While in the middle of the activity, however, participants do not seem particularly happy. So where does the happiness come from? The article proposes some answers from a study of facially expressed emotions measured moment-by-moment during a backcountry skiing event. Self-reported emotions were also assessed immediately after the skiing. Participants expressed lower levels of happiness while skiing, compared to when stopping for a break. Moment-to-moment and self-reported measures of emotions were largely unrelated. These findings are explained with reference to the Functional Wellbeing Approach (Vittersø, 2013), which argues that some moment-to-moment feelings are non-evaluative in the sense of being generated directly by the difficulty of an activity. By contrast, retrospective emotional feelings are more complex as they include an evaluation of the overall goals and values associated with the activity as a whole. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-abdd9230b1f44557b2f0066d16c601482022-12-21T17:48:44ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782018-06-01910.3389/fpsyg.2018.00971313338Skiing and Thinking About It: Moment-to-Moment and Retrospective Analysis of Emotions in an Extreme SportAudun HetlandJoar VittersøSimen Oscar Bø WieEirik KjelstrupMatthias MittnerTove Irene DahlHappiness is typically reported as an important reason for participating in challenging activities like extreme sport. While in the middle of the activity, however, participants do not seem particularly happy. So where does the happiness come from? The article proposes some answers from a study of facially expressed emotions measured moment-by-moment during a backcountry skiing event. Self-reported emotions were also assessed immediately after the skiing. Participants expressed lower levels of happiness while skiing, compared to when stopping for a break. Moment-to-moment and self-reported measures of emotions were largely unrelated. These findings are explained with reference to the Functional Wellbeing Approach (Vittersø, 2013), which argues that some moment-to-moment feelings are non-evaluative in the sense of being generated directly by the difficulty of an activity. By contrast, retrospective emotional feelings are more complex as they include an evaluation of the overall goals and values associated with the activity as a whole.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00971/fullemotionsfacial expressionmoment-to-momentfunctional wellbeing approachextreme sportbackcountry skiing |
| spellingShingle | Audun Hetland Joar Vittersø Simen Oscar Bø Wie Eirik Kjelstrup Matthias Mittner Tove Irene Dahl Skiing and Thinking About It: Moment-to-Moment and Retrospective Analysis of Emotions in an Extreme Sport Frontiers in Psychology emotions facial expression moment-to-moment functional wellbeing approach extreme sport backcountry skiing |
| title | Skiing and Thinking About It: Moment-to-Moment and Retrospective Analysis of Emotions in an Extreme Sport |
| title_full | Skiing and Thinking About It: Moment-to-Moment and Retrospective Analysis of Emotions in an Extreme Sport |
| title_fullStr | Skiing and Thinking About It: Moment-to-Moment and Retrospective Analysis of Emotions in an Extreme Sport |
| title_full_unstemmed | Skiing and Thinking About It: Moment-to-Moment and Retrospective Analysis of Emotions in an Extreme Sport |
| title_short | Skiing and Thinking About It: Moment-to-Moment and Retrospective Analysis of Emotions in an Extreme Sport |
| title_sort | skiing and thinking about it moment to moment and retrospective analysis of emotions in an extreme sport |
| topic | emotions facial expression moment-to-moment functional wellbeing approach extreme sport backcountry skiing |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00971/full |
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