Boris Cheval
Biographic Data
| ID | 117091 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Boris Cheval |
| GIVEN NAMES | Boris |
| FAMILY NAME | Cheval |
| SIGNATURE | CHEVAL B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Geneva |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6236-4673 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Why Do Humans Exercise? A Neuro‐Evolutionary Framework for Discretionary Physical Effort
Hominin evolution made physical activity obligatory for survival. Modern environments decoupled effort from ecological returns, generating an evolutionary mismatch that favors energy conservation over voluntary movement. This review distinguishes between subsistence‐based physical activity, the ancestral condition directly coupled to survival, and discretionary exercise, a voluntary behavior performed in the absence of immediate metabolic necessi…
Émersion de la gravité sensorielle en Freestyle Football
Le Freestyle Football est une discipline libre, alliant cirque, jonglerie, acrobatie, gymnastique, danse et musicalité, qui consiste en des techniques individuelles avec un ballon de football. L’émersion de la gravité dans la conscience corporelle participe à la régulation de ce geste technique
Promouvoir une activité physique régulière chez les patients
L’activité physique est associée à un large éventail de bénéfices pour la santé. Cependant, de nombreux patients n’atteignent pas les niveaux d’activité physique recommandés. À ce jour, les interventions visant à promouvoir l’activité physique chez les patients s’appuient majoritairement sur les modèles de motivation et de santé qui présentent les processus cognitifs comme un déterminant essentiel des comportements. Cependant, les méta-analyses i…
Sociodemographic precursors of explicit and implicit attitudes towards physical activity
OBJECTIVE: In high-income countries, people with low socio-economic status (SES) engage in less leisure-time physical activity (PA) than those with higher SES. Beyond a materialistic account of this difference, the role of motivational precursors-among which attitudes are emblematic-remains poorly understood, particularly when it comes to dissociating the automatic vs. deliberative components of attitudes. This pre-registered study aimed to exami…
Automaticity mediates the association between action planning and physical activity, especially when autonomous motivation is high
Objectives Action planning promotes physical activity (PA). However, mechanisms underlying this association are poorly understood, as are the variables that moderate this link remain unexplored. To fill these gaps, we investigated whether automaticity mediated the association between action planning and PA, and whether autonomous motivation moderated this mediation.Methods and Measures PA was measured by accelerometry over seven days among a samp…
Do not underestimate the cognitive benefits of exercise
“More than just a walk in the park”
In spite of the large-scale growth of walking sport (WS) programmes globally, limited research has explored the experiences of the key stakeholders involved in such programmes (i.e. decision-makers, facilitators, and players). We aimed to explore stakeholder experiences of community-based WS programmes to better understand the appeal of such sport options for middle-aged and older adults, and propose tentative recommendations for the feasibility …
Women carry the weight of deprivation on physical inactivity
Deprived people are less physically active than privileged individuals. However, pathways underlying the association between deprivation and physical activity remain overlooked. We examined whether the association between deprivation and physical activity was mediated by body mass index (BMI). Consistent with an intersectional perspective (how the combination of belongingness to vulnerable social categories widens inequalities), we tested whether…
Dynamical System Modeling of Self-Regulated Systems Undergoing Multiple Excitations
This article proposes a dynamical system modeling approach for the analysis of longitudinal data of self-regulated homeostatic systems experiencing multiple excitations. It focuses on the evolution of a signal (e.g., heart rate) before, during, and after excitations taking the system out of its equilibrium (e.g., physical effort during cardiac stress testing). Such approach can be applied to a broad range of outcomes such as physiological process…
Exploring Two Pandemics in Academic Arena
The overlay of the COVID-19 pandemic on the pandemic of physical inactivity has become a great concern. Both types of pandemics can decrease the health protection capacity and consequently increase complexity in human lives. This cross-sectional study intended to examine changes in physical activity and sedentary behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic among university students in a second-tier city of Bangladesh. Two hundred and nine students res…
Staying Active under Restrictions
The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated governmental restrictions suddenly changed everyday life and potentially affected exercise behavior. The aim of this study was to explore whether individuals changed their preference for certain types of physical exercise during the pandemic and to identify risk factors for inactivity. An international online survey with 13,881 adult participants from 18 countries/regions was conducted during the initial C…
Social protection expenditure on health in later life in 20 European countries
Higher social spending reduces life-course socioeconomic inequalities in women's subjective health and in men's and women's objective health. However, some specific social protection policies may have the unintentional effect of increasing inequalities in people's evaluation of their own health
Promoting Physical Activity during School Closures Imposed by the First Wave of the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically reduced physical activity (PA) behaviors of many people. Physical education (PE) is considered one of the privileged instruments to promote youths' PA. We aimed to investigate the effects of lockdown on PE teachers' behaviors promoting their students' out-of-school PA and differences between three European countries. A sample of 1146 PE teachers (59.5% females) from France, Italy, and Turkey answered an onlin…
Back pain occurrence and treatment-seeking behavior among nurses
Do Welfare Regimes Moderate Cumulative Dis/advantages Over the Life Course? Cross-National Evidence from Longitudinal SHARE Data
Our research did not find evidence of cumulative disadvantage with aging in the studied life-course characteristics and age range. Instead, trajectories showed narrowing differences with differing patterns across welfare regimes
The role of adult socioeconomic and relational reserves regarding the effect of childhood misfortune on late-life depressive symptoms
Childhood socioeconomic disadvantage can be mitigated more easily over the life course than adverse childhood events and poor childhood health, especially in men. Perceived relational reserves work primarily as a protective force against late-life depressive symptoms and may be particularly important in the context of the cumulative effect of childhood adversities
Life Course Socioeconomic Conditions and Frailty at Older Ages
Findings suggest that CSC are associated with frailty at old age. However, when taking into account ASC, this association no longer persists. The results show the importance of improving socioeconomic conditions over the whole life course in order to reduce health inequalities in old age
Life-Course Circumstances and Frailty in Old Age Within Different European Welfare Regimes
These findings suggest that childhood misfortune is linked to frailty in old age. Such a disadvantaged start in life does not seem to be compensated by a person's life-course socioeconomic trajectory, though certain types of welfare regimes affected this relationship. Apart from main occupational position, our findings do not support the cumulative dis/advantage theory, but rather show narrowing differences
Early-life socioeconomic circumstances explain health differences in old age, but not their evolution over time
Early-life SEC are associated with health in old age, but not with trajectories of healthy ageing. Conceptual models in life course research should consider the possibility of a limited influence of early-life SEC on healthy ageing trajectories
We Won't Retire Without Skeletons in the Closet
Physicians and nurses are expected to systematically provide high-quality healthcare in a context marked by complexity, time pressure, heavy workload, and the influence of nonclinical factors on clinical decisions. Therefore, healthcare professionals must eventually deal with unfortunate events to which regret is a typical emotional reaction. Using semistructured interviews, 11 physicians and 13 nurses working in two different hospitals in the Ge…
Materialism moderates the impact of mortality salience on impulsive tendencies toward luxury brands
Luxury goods have been shown to help individuals coping with death-related anxiety. However, the extent to which the symbolic value allocated to possessions (i.e., materialism) moderates this effect is still unclear. Here, we investigated the impact of materialism on impulsive approach tendencies toward luxury clothing brands in a context of mortality salience. Results showed that the impact of mortality salience was moderated by materialism with…
When hunger does (or doesn't) increase unhealthy and healthy food consumption through food wanting
An Ego Depletion Account of Aging Stereotypes’ Effects on Health-Related Variables
This study confirmed that endorsement of age stereotypes of PA predicted subjective vitality among active older adults. These results suggest that stereotypes may be related to health-related outcomes notably through ego depletion effects
Do Welfare Regimes Moderate Cumulative Dis/advantages Over the Life Course? Cross-National Evidence from Longitudinal SHARE Data
Our research did not find evidence of cumulative disadvantage with aging in the studied life-course characteristics and age range. Instead, trajectories showed narrowing differences with differing patterns across welfare regimes
Life Course Socioeconomic Conditions and Frailty at Older Ages
Findings suggest that CSC are associated with frailty at old age. However, when taking into account ASC, this association no longer persists. The results show the importance of improving socioeconomic conditions over the whole life course in order to reduce health inequalities in old age
Life-Course Circumstances and Frailty in Old Age Within Different European Welfare Regimes
These findings suggest that childhood misfortune is linked to frailty in old age. Such a disadvantaged start in life does not seem to be compensated by a person's life-course socioeconomic trajectory, though certain types of welfare regimes affected this relationship. Apart from main occupational position, our findings do not support the cumulative dis/advantage theory, but rather show narrowing differences
An Ego Depletion Account of Aging Stereotypes’ Effects on Health-Related Variables
This study confirmed that endorsement of age stereotypes of PA predicted subjective vitality among active older adults. These results suggest that stereotypes may be related to health-related outcomes notably through ego depletion effects
Social protection expenditure on health in later life in 20 European countries
Higher social spending reduces life-course socioeconomic inequalities in women's subjective health and in men's and women's objective health. However, some specific social protection policies may have the unintentional effect of increasing inequalities in people's evaluation of their own health
Materialism moderates the impact of mortality salience on impulsive tendencies toward luxury brands
Luxury goods have been shown to help individuals coping with death-related anxiety. However, the extent to which the symbolic value allocated to possessions (i.e., materialism) moderates this effect is still unclear. Here, we investigated the impact of materialism on impulsive approach tendencies toward luxury clothing brands in a context of mortality salience. Results showed that the impact of mortality salience was moderated by materialism with…
Do not underestimate the cognitive benefits of exercise
Early-life socioeconomic circumstances explain health differences in old age, but not their evolution over time
Early-life SEC are associated with health in old age, but not with trajectories of healthy ageing. Conceptual models in life course research should consider the possibility of a limited influence of early-life SEC on healthy ageing trajectories
We Won't Retire Without Skeletons in the Closet
Physicians and nurses are expected to systematically provide high-quality healthcare in a context marked by complexity, time pressure, heavy workload, and the influence of nonclinical factors on clinical decisions. Therefore, healthcare professionals must eventually deal with unfortunate events to which regret is a typical emotional reaction. Using semistructured interviews, 11 physicians and 13 nurses working in two different hospitals in the Ge…
An Ego Depletion Account of Aging Stereotypes’ Effects on Health-Related Variables
This study confirmed that endorsement of age stereotypes of PA predicted subjective vitality among active older adults. These results suggest that stereotypes may be related to health-related outcomes notably through ego depletion effects
Materialism moderates the impact of mortality salience on impulsive tendencies toward luxury brands
Luxury goods have been shown to help individuals coping with death-related anxiety. However, the extent to which the symbolic value allocated to possessions (i.e., materialism) moderates this effect is still unclear. Here, we investigated the impact of materialism on impulsive approach tendencies toward luxury clothing brands in a context of mortality salience. Results showed that the impact of mortality salience was moderated by materialism with…
When hunger does (or doesn't) increase unhealthy and healthy food consumption through food wanting
We Won't Retire Without Skeletons in the Closet
Physicians and nurses are expected to systematically provide high-quality healthcare in a context marked by complexity, time pressure, heavy workload, and the influence of nonclinical factors on clinical decisions. Therefore, healthcare professionals must eventually deal with unfortunate events to which regret is a typical emotional reaction. Using semistructured interviews, 11 physicians and 13 nurses working in two different hospitals in the Ge…
The role of adult socioeconomic and relational reserves regarding the effect of childhood misfortune on late-life depressive symptoms
Childhood socioeconomic disadvantage can be mitigated more easily over the life course than adverse childhood events and poor childhood health, especially in men. Perceived relational reserves work primarily as a protective force against late-life depressive symptoms and may be particularly important in the context of the cumulative effect of childhood adversities
Life Course Socioeconomic Conditions and Frailty at Older Ages
Findings suggest that CSC are associated with frailty at old age. However, when taking into account ASC, this association no longer persists. The results show the importance of improving socioeconomic conditions over the whole life course in order to reduce health inequalities in old age
Life-Course Circumstances and Frailty in Old Age Within Different European Welfare Regimes
These findings suggest that childhood misfortune is linked to frailty in old age. Such a disadvantaged start in life does not seem to be compensated by a person's life-course socioeconomic trajectory, though certain types of welfare regimes affected this relationship. Apart from main occupational position, our findings do not support the cumulative dis/advantage theory, but rather show narrowing differences
Early-life socioeconomic circumstances explain health differences in old age, but not their evolution over time
Early-life SEC are associated with health in old age, but not with trajectories of healthy ageing. Conceptual models in life course research should consider the possibility of a limited influence of early-life SEC on healthy ageing trajectories
Promoting Physical Activity during School Closures Imposed by the First Wave of the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically reduced physical activity (PA) behaviors of many people. Physical education (PE) is considered one of the privileged instruments to promote youths' PA. We aimed to investigate the effects of lockdown on PE teachers' behaviors promoting their students' out-of-school PA and differences between three European countries. A sample of 1146 PE teachers (59.5% females) from France, Italy, and Turkey answered an onlin…
Back pain occurrence and treatment-seeking behavior among nurses
Do Welfare Regimes Moderate Cumulative Dis/advantages Over the Life Course? Cross-National Evidence from Longitudinal SHARE Data
Our research did not find evidence of cumulative disadvantage with aging in the studied life-course characteristics and age range. Instead, trajectories showed narrowing differences with differing patterns across welfare regimes
Dynamical System Modeling of Self-Regulated Systems Undergoing Multiple Excitations
This article proposes a dynamical system modeling approach for the analysis of longitudinal data of self-regulated homeostatic systems experiencing multiple excitations. It focuses on the evolution of a signal (e.g., heart rate) before, during, and after excitations taking the system out of its equilibrium (e.g., physical effort during cardiac stress testing). Such approach can be applied to a broad range of outcomes such as physiological process…
Exploring Two Pandemics in Academic Arena
The overlay of the COVID-19 pandemic on the pandemic of physical inactivity has become a great concern. Both types of pandemics can decrease the health protection capacity and consequently increase complexity in human lives. This cross-sectional study intended to examine changes in physical activity and sedentary behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic among university students in a second-tier city of Bangladesh. Two hundred and nine students res…
Staying Active under Restrictions
The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated governmental restrictions suddenly changed everyday life and potentially affected exercise behavior. The aim of this study was to explore whether individuals changed their preference for certain types of physical exercise during the pandemic and to identify risk factors for inactivity. An international online survey with 13,881 adult participants from 18 countries/regions was conducted during the initial C…
Social protection expenditure on health in later life in 20 European countries
Higher social spending reduces life-course socioeconomic inequalities in women's subjective health and in men's and women's objective health. However, some specific social protection policies may have the unintentional effect of increasing inequalities in people's evaluation of their own health
Women carry the weight of deprivation on physical inactivity
Deprived people are less physically active than privileged individuals. However, pathways underlying the association between deprivation and physical activity remain overlooked. We examined whether the association between deprivation and physical activity was mediated by body mass index (BMI). Consistent with an intersectional perspective (how the combination of belongingness to vulnerable social categories widens inequalities), we tested whether…
“More than just a walk in the park”
In spite of the large-scale growth of walking sport (WS) programmes globally, limited research has explored the experiences of the key stakeholders involved in such programmes (i.e. decision-makers, facilitators, and players). We aimed to explore stakeholder experiences of community-based WS programmes to better understand the appeal of such sport options for middle-aged and older adults, and propose tentative recommendations for the feasibility …
Do not underestimate the cognitive benefits of exercise
Sociodemographic precursors of explicit and implicit attitudes towards physical activity
OBJECTIVE: In high-income countries, people with low socio-economic status (SES) engage in less leisure-time physical activity (PA) than those with higher SES. Beyond a materialistic account of this difference, the role of motivational precursors-among which attitudes are emblematic-remains poorly understood, particularly when it comes to dissociating the automatic vs. deliberative components of attitudes. This pre-registered study aimed to exami…
Automaticity mediates the association between action planning and physical activity, especially when autonomous motivation is high
Objectives Action planning promotes physical activity (PA). However, mechanisms underlying this association are poorly understood, as are the variables that moderate this link remain unexplored. To fill these gaps, we investigated whether automaticity mediated the association between action planning and PA, and whether autonomous motivation moderated this mediation.Methods and Measures PA was measured by accelerometry over seven days among a samp…
Why Do Humans Exercise? A Neuro‐Evolutionary Framework for Discretionary Physical Effort
Hominin evolution made physical activity obligatory for survival. Modern environments decoupled effort from ecological returns, generating an evolutionary mismatch that favors energy conservation over voluntary movement. This review distinguishes between subsistence‐based physical activity, the ancestral condition directly coupled to survival, and discretionary exercise, a voluntary behavior performed in the absence of immediate metabolic necessi…
Émersion de la gravité sensorielle en Freestyle Football
Le Freestyle Football est une discipline libre, alliant cirque, jonglerie, acrobatie, gymnastique, danse et musicalité, qui consiste en des techniques individuelles avec un ballon de football. L’émersion de la gravité dans la conscience corporelle participe à la régulation de ce geste technique
Promouvoir une activité physique régulière chez les patients
L’activité physique est associée à un large éventail de bénéfices pour la santé. Cependant, de nombreux patients n’atteignent pas les niveaux d’activité physique recommandés. À ce jour, les interventions visant à promouvoir l’activité physique chez les patients s’appuient majoritairement sur les modèles de motivation et de santé qui présentent les processus cognitifs comme un déterminant essentiel des comportements. Cependant, les méta-analyses i…
Psychology (18 works) · Medicine (15 works) · Gerontology (8 works) · Physical Activity and Health (8 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Environmental health (5 works)