Participants and procedure

812 Israeli participants were recruited through social media and instant messaging apps. After giving informed consent, volunteers completed a Hebrew online research questionnaire about physical activity and quality of life. Some of the instruments included in the questionnaire already existed in Hebrew, whereas others were translated from English into Hebrew using the back translation method (45, 46). The Ethics Committee of West Timisoara University approved the questionnaire and research protocol (15227/7.03.2023). We excluded data from 352 participants, as 24 were screened out based on the first question in the study, and 328 failed to complete the responses in the questionnaires or filled them in carelessly or illogically and/or did not meet the inclusion criteria of the study. In total, the final sample comprised 460 participants with a mean age of 37.03 (SD = 11.71 years), and 53.7% were female. The BMI for the female participants (N = 247) was 23.66 (sd = 3.77), and for the males (N = 153), it was 25.93 (sd = 3.83). For the total sample (N = 460), the BMI was 24.71 (sd = 3.96), suggesting that the sample overall was of normal weight (47). The majority of the participants had a post-secondary education, with 69.80% having an academic education, and 71.74% of the participants reported that they worked fulltime. Table 1 presents the remainder of the participants' characteristics, and their descriptive data are displayed in Table 2.

Characteristics of participants.

Descriptive data.