The Relationship Between Impression Management And Females' Exercises And Their Mental Health

Most researches in exercise movements select females as the subjects, so the effects of impression management on females' exercise becomes the main topic of the paper,and the further purpose of the paper is to explore the relationship between impression management and females' mental heath.Foreign researchers founded the basic measurement scale SPEQ,but it doesn't show adaption to Chinese culture.Basing on the SPEQ,the researcher give birth to SPEQ-CF(Self-presentation Exerciser Questionnaire for Chinese Females) which including 390 female undergraduate students as participants.The statistic data show that the SPEQ-CF has acceptable adaption to local culture.So it was selected as the measurement scale for the following researches.The following researches include:1) investigation in 3748 females from 9 to 50 years old to find the development law of females' impression management,the relationship between impression management and female' s body exercise,and the relationships of impression management and female' s body conception,self-esteem and life satisfaction;2) data collection from gyms in 434 females from 16 to 60 years old to discuss the effects of impression management on females exercise movements;3) further discussion on data collected in gyms to discover the relationship between impression management and females' choices of their exercise surroundings;4) longitudinal study in 212 freshmen of university with average age 18.98±0.90 years to describe the relationship between the persistence in exercise and impression management,and the difference between gender.The results show that:1) impression management levels change according to females' age,the top level appear in university phase, and females emphasize different aspects of impression management according to their age and education degree;2) the sub dimension of impression management can predict the school female students' life satisfaction,but the prediction power is weakly,the self-esteem is always the strongest predictor of life satisfaction and not change with different ages.From middle school on,body worthiness becomes the secondary predictor to life satisfaction;3) impression management can predict females' choice on exercise programs,the exercise frequency per week,but cannot predict the each lasting time.Comparing with the other two sub dimensions,impression construction is the most stable predictor of females' exercise frequency per week and each lasting time; 4) stereotype and social anxiety are more effective to predict females' each exercise lasting time than impression management;5) females with different impression management levels show different sensitivity to material clues in exercise surroundings,and their according coping strategy show on "audience" numbers;6) exercise can not.change exercisers' impression management level obviously,and the effects of exercise on impression management,body-concept,self-esteem and life satisfaction depending on exercisers' gender.