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. 2021 Aug 3;9:688251. doi: 10.3389/fped.2021.688251

Table 2.

Executive functioning, mood, motivation, and task self-efficacy scores by group.

	Sedentary control				Physical activity break
	Pre		Post		Pre		Post		F	p	$η_{p}^{2}$
	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD
Stroop task	297.45	(54.25)	326.88	(65.15)	299.04	(54.27)	362.33	(61.00)	25.19^a	<0.001	0.19
TMT	128.70	(42.09)	126.89	(44.07)	125.53	(37.46)	115.21	(31.45)	1.22^a	0.27	0.01
FMS test	22.57	(2.43)	22.58	(2.05)	21.96	(2.23)	23.04	(2.48)	6.42^a	0.01	0.06
EF composite score	0.99	(2.45)	−0.42	(2.30)	−0.13	(2.23)	0.57	(2.21)	16.24^a	<0.001	0.13
Mood	3.64	(0.57)	3.46	(0.66)	3.37	(0.60)	3.92	(0.71)	42.19^a	<0.001	0.28
Motivation	5.72	(0.92)	5.77	(0.96)	5.61	(0.99)	5.86	(0.98)	5.61^a	0.02	0.05
Self-efficacy	–	–	5.70	(1.82)	–	–	7.20	(1.87)	15.76^b	<0.001	0.08

M, mean; SD, standard deviation; TMT, trail making test; FMS, forward memory span; EF, executive functioning; $η_{p}^{2}$ , partial eta squared.

^a

F-values represent the time by activity type interaction from the 2 × 3 repeated measures ANOVAs.

^b

F-value represents the main effect for activity type from the 2 × 3 univariate ANOVA.