The cold, short days decrease the body's production of many hormones associated with elevated mood, elevated energy and metabolism, and motivation to get to the gym and eat healthy.
The possibility that motivation or elevated anxiety levels are related to participation rate should be considered.
Similarly, participants who had experienced physical manifestations of their elevated blood pressure expressed strong motivation to continue with their antihypertensive medications, "In the morning I take my high blood pressure medicine.
Perhaps anxiety represents an affective state, which is "characterized by more elevated arousal or heightened approach motivation" [44, p. 4], compared to depression, for example, which could explain its relationship with engaging in NSSI to communicate with and try to influence others.
Griffin, who is himself gay, is best known for his work advocating LGBT rights, often citing the elevated rate of suicide among gay teens as motivation.
In October, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child directly linked Rio's military police to an "elevated number of summary executions of children". The motivation, the UN body alleged, was an effort to "clean the streets" of street children in order to "present a problem-free city to the world" during the Olympics.
This is in line with literature on the Protection Motivation Theory, which found that an elevated risk promotes health adaptive behavior [ 34– 34].
Mood disturbance in the form of hypomanic experiences is also associated with elevated rates of gambling problem symptoms, reflecting enhanced motivations to gamble for excitement and to regulate negative emotional states.
As suggested elsewhere (Malisch et al. 2008), organisms with elevated corticosterone levels could have higher available energy and/or motivation to perform during exercise such as wheel running (Dallman et al. 1993; Pecoraro et al. 2006).
