Research On The Influence Of Wushu As A Selective Courseon University Students' Healthy Personality

Healthy personality is essential for modern people,especially for university students.In order to create a niche in a society of severe competition and achieve success in career,present-day university students must possess healthy personality besides excellent school work.Cultivating healthy personality of university students is a call of the new age,a requirement for their development and a necessity for changing the dissatisfactory state concerning personality cultivating.This thesis aims to research on the influence of several events of Wushu as a selective course on students' personality cultivating, compare the differences of these events' mental influence on students, give suggestions concerning cultivating healthy personality through Wushu and provide theoretical basis and methodical guidance for improving students' mental health through athletics.Objects of this research are picked out randomly from students in Suzhou university who attended the university in 2005 and take Wushu as a selective course(including three events:Sanshou,shadowboxing and changquan).For each events,thirty girls and thirty boys are picked out. They are divided into three teams.(team A is team of changquan,team B shadowboxing and team C Sanshou.) Each team is divided into two classes according to the gender of the students,that is,boys belong to one class and girls belong to the other class.The tool for this research is UPI.The result of this research suggests that Wushu as a selective course helps to better students' personality,which conforms to the findings of former researches concerning the relationship between athletics and mental health and therefore justify the first assumption of this research different events in Wushu teaching have different influence on students' personality.Sanshou,shadowboxing and changquan are all beneficial in improving the health of personality,while Sanshou is more effective in emotional aspect and shadowboxing is more effective in emotional and mental aspects;gender differences exist concerning the influence of Wushu on students' personality.Influence of shadowboxing on healthy personality cultivation is more outstanding among girls while Sanshou is more effective among boys.