There is growing academic, civic and policy interest in the public health benefits of community-based exercise events. Shifting the emphasis from competitive sport to communal activity, these events have wide appeal. In addition to physical health benefits, regular participation can reduce social isolation and loneliness through opportunities for social connection. Taking a broad evolutionary and social psychological perspective, we suggest that social factors warrant more attention in current approaches to physical (in)activity and exercise behavior. We develop and test the hypothesis that social reward and support in exercise are associated with positive exercise experiences and greater performance outputs. Using a repeated-measures design, we examine the influence of social perceptions and behavior on subjective enjoyment, energy, fatigue, effort, and objective performance (run times) among a UK sample of parkrun participants. Social factors were associated with greater subjective enjoyment and energy. Higher subjective energy, in turn, was associated with faster run times, without any corresponding increase in perceived effort. No significant main effects of social factors on fatigue, performance or effort were detected. The role of social structural factors has long been recognized in public health approaches to physical activity. Our results indicate that there should be greater research attention on how positive and rewarding social behaviors and experiences-particularly subjective enjoyment and energy, and perceptions of community social support and belonging-influence exercise-related behavior, psychology and physiology, and promote health through collective physical activity. The research also supplements traditional emphases on social facilitation and team sport that have dominated sport and exercise psychology and offers new avenues for understanding the deep connections among psychological, social and physical function in everyday health.

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社会奖励和支持对运动体验和表现的影响：来自 parkrun 的证据。

学术界、公民和政策对基于社区的运动活动的公共健康益处越来越感兴趣。这些赛事将重点从竞技体育转移到社区活动，具有广泛的吸引力。除了身体健康方面的好处外，定期参与还可以通过建立社交联系的机会减少社交孤立和孤独感。从广泛的进化和社会心理学角度来看，我们认为社会因素需要在当前的身体（不）活动和锻炼行为方法中得到更多关注。我们开发并测试了以下假设：运动中的社会奖励和支持与积极的运动体验和更高的表现输出相关。使用重复测量设计，我们检查社会认知和行为对主观享受、精力、疲劳、在英国公园跑参与者样本中的努力和客观表现（运行时间）。社会因素与更大的主观享受和能量有关。反过来，更高的主观能量与更快的运行时间相关联，而感知的努力没有任何相应的增加。没有检测到社会因素对疲劳、表现或努力的显着主要影响。长期以来，社会结构因素的作用在体育活动的公共卫生方法中得到了认可。我们的结果表明，应该更多地研究积极和有益的社会行为和体验——特别是主观享受和能量，以及对社区社会支持和归属感的看法——如何影响与运动相关的行为、心理和生理，并通过集体促进健康。体力活动。