A citizen science study of short physical activity breaks at school: improvements in cognition and wellbeing with self-paced activity

Table 4 Correlation coefficients associated with each outcome and each outdoor activity

Outdoor activity	Outcome	Alertness		Inhibition adj		Verbal WM		Visual-spatial WM		Fitness
Outdoor activity	Outcome	r	p value	r	p value	r	p value	r	p value	r	p value
Self-paced activity	Affect	0.57	0.000	− 0.01	0.595	0.07	0.000	0.02	0.324	0.03	0.201
	Alertness			0.01	0.727	0.05	0.008	0.01	0.796	0.05	0.041
	Inhibition adj					− 0.03	0.067	0.06	0.001	− 0.01	0.805
	Verbal WM							− 0.05	0.005	0.01	0.845
	Visual-spatial WM									− 0.03	0.199
Bleep test	Affect	0.53	0.000	− 0.03	0.229	0.10	0.000	− 0.03	0.223	0.04	0.060
	Alertness			− 0.02	0.332	0.05	0.026	0.03	0.165	0.01	0.675
	Inhibition adj					− 0.08	0.001	0.04	0.061	0.00	0.950
	Verbal WM							− 0.09	0.000	0.02	0.337
	Visual-spatial WM									− 0.01	0.706
Control activity	Affect	0.51	0.000	0.01	0.646	0.06	0.006	− 0.00	0.859	0.01	0.851
	Alertness			0.01	0.534	0.04	0.056	− 0.05	0.041	− 0.04	0.162
	Inhibition adj					− 0.07	0.002	0.04	0.077	0.01	0.674
	Verbal WM							− 0.05	0.022	0.05	0.083
	Visual-spatial WM									0.03	0.252

Inhibition adj inhibition reaction time adjusted for errors, Verbal WM verbal working memory: total number of words, Visual-spatial WM visual-spatial working memory: actual adjusted for optimum, Fitness age-corrected VO₂ max

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