A Study On Professional Commitment For College Students Of PE

The Professional Commitment (PC) of the college students is the relative strength of identification with and involvement in their major studies. The strength must be affected recently as a result of the successive expansion in high education and the heavy pressure in employment, which inevitably has a strong impact on their lives and studies. Thus it's quite necessary to gain insights into their degrees of PC. In the study based on a great many literature reviews, questionnaire surveys and interviews with related experts, the Professional Commitment Questionnaire for Students of PE (PCQSPE) was made and with it a study about PC of PE students was conducted. The results indicated: (1) the questionnaire has relatively good reliability and validity, which is applicable to college students of PE in Chinese cultural background; (2) The psychological structure of PC among Chinese college students of PE consists of three dimensions: affective commitment, economic commitment, and normative commitment; (3) Generally the overall level of PC of PE students stays middling or a bit higher with good differences on various dimensions. A relatively greater PC variation exists in normative commitment, lower in economic commitment; there is some difference with sex in normative commitment while the other two aren't, and the PC of female students is higher than that of male ones; The level of PC in different grades contrasted with little in where they come from; there are also differences in three commitments among colleges, but none in other two, and the PC for students from institute of PE is higher than others;...