The Rearch Of Physical Activities Psychological Affecting Factors Of College Students In Hubei Province

As the first basal goal for college curriculum to achieve is the sports participation, to grope for the affecting factors of physical activities of college students can lead to their forming self-conscious exercising habit, thus gradually shape life-long exercising consciousness, and help to the guidance to sports participation of college students. The study, with the college students in Hubei Province as research subjects, by the confirmative analysis as well as the structure equation model (SEM), carried out the empirical study to arrive at: a) to make up a five-point Likert Scales to see about the working affects on students'physical activities based on the present theory, in the hoping that the scale can be applied and popularized on PA study; b) to test the related exercising behavior theories by SEM and to further examine the relations between psychological affecting factors of PA of college students and their PA in leisure time, and decide the main psychological factors that affect their exercise behavior; c) to study the differences that the main psychological factors upon the variables.The findings of the study are as follows:1. The psychological affecting factors on students'PA are made up of 11 multi-dimensions: health belief, results appraisement, behavior intensions, behavior attitudes, self-identities, behavior habits, target attitudes, social supports, affect experience, self-efficiency, and self-evaluation.2. Fifty-six item Psychological Affecting Inventory of Physical Activities for College Students (PAFIPACS) (11 factors) is reliable and of validity, which can be an effective tool for surveying the physical activities of college students.3. Of 4 exercise behavior theories that were tested by SEM are relatively working, but attitude-behavior integrating model may inflect more widely the direct effect of which the psychological factors impose on students'leisure time physical activities. Thus the factors of the model can be viewed as main affecting factors of psychological ones on physical activities: behavior habits, target attitudes, result appraisals, affect experience, social supports, self-identity, behavior attitudes, and behavior intensions.4. The study discussed the differences on which the main effecting factors imposed physical activities with the independent sample T-test and variance analysis. It was found that significant gender differences existed on five factors: behavior habits, target attitudes, affect experience, behavior attitudes, and behavior intensions; significant grades differences appeared to the factors: behavior attitudes, behavior habits, behavior intentions, and social support; clear major differences occurred to the factors: behavior habits, target attitudes, affect experience, social support, behavior intentions; while there was no significant differences on source of the students, and significant differences of college type only came to the social support.