Effect of aerodance on mood state among Sime Darby Plantation women employees / Wan Yasmin Wan Jalaluddin

Women employees tend to over work in order to make living thus make them exposed
to negative moods like tension, anger, fatigue, confusion and depression. Aerodance
is rhythmic fun physical activities that can helps to reduce negative moods and enhance positive moods. The purpose of this study is to identify the effect of aerodance on mood states among women employees and also to compare the effect of aerodance and control group on mood states among women employees. Fourty participant from Sime Darby Plantation was participated in the study. The participant criteria needed was healthy married women. The participants were randomly divided into 2 group of aerodance (n=20) and control group (n=20). Aerodance was participated in aerodance for 4 weeks, while control group did not participate in any physical activity during the study. Paiiicipants completed the Profile Mood State (POMS) questionnaire before and after exercise bouts. Then repeated measure ANOV A were used to measure the objective. The result showed a significant main effect in mean mood state scores of tension, anger, fatigue, esteem related affect, vigour, confusion, depression of the POMS and total mood disturbance of the participants. There was a significant main effect in mood change over time (Wilks· Lambda 0.496 F (7,32) = 4.64, p<0.05, T}2 = 0.50, a significant main effect for groups (Wilks Lambda 0.11 F (7,32) = 414.66, p<0.05, T}2 = 0.99, and a significant Time x Group interaction effect (Greenhouse-Geisser 1.00, 4.05(25.25), p,0.05, T}2 = 0.40. In conclusion, aerodance appears to be affective in improving mood and it is recommended that aerodance can be perfonned as mood enhancement strategy and should be included in public health programs among employee.