Table 4_Associations between the prenatal exercise environment, exercise experience, and adherence: a cross-sectional study of affective and cognitive pathways.docx

This study aimed to examine the associations of the prenatal exercise environment with exercise experience and psychological distress, with particular attention to the proposed affective and cognitive pathways within the Prenatal Exercise Environment Dual-pathway framework.</p>Methods<p>In this cross-sectional study, 361 pregnant women were recruited through multicenter convenience sampling from medical centers in five regions of China.

The researcher-developed Prenatal Exercise Environment and Experience Questionnaire underwent preliminary psychometric evaluation in the current sample, followed by structural equation modeling with 5,000 bootstrap resamples and machine-learning analyses.</p>Results<p>The prenatal exercise environment was positively associated with positive affective state (β = 0.328, p < 0.001) and exercise enjoyment (β = 0.270, p < 0.001) and negatively associated with repetitive negative thinking (β = −0.297, p < 0.001).