Research On The Influence Of Oriental Exercise On The Mood State And Subjective Well-being Of Professional Women

The so-called "Oriental Exercise" refers to Chinese Qigong, Taijiquan, IndianYoga, which are not only prosperous in its native, but also increasingly attracted theattention of Western countries. This proves that the Oriental Exercise should be morein line with the requirements of modern society for exercise. The modern professionalwomen who are the precious wealth of the society and the family are indispensableforces of modernization in the new century. This paper tries to start from thepsychology effects of Oriental Exercise, Studies on the influence of Oriental Exerciseon the body composition, mood state and subjective well-being of professionalwomen, and investigates the relationship between changes in the body’s physiologicalindexes and subjective well-being.Study1of this paper used the method of questionnaire, selected the professionalwomen in Zhengzhou area as the research objects (200people of the OrientalExercise group,100people of other exercise group,100people of non exercisegroup), then gave out the questionnaire (mood state scale and general well-beingscale), and then did the mathematical analysis of each group of the datas; study2selected some healthy professional women as the study objects who usually have noexercise habits in one commercial housing community in Zhengzhou city. The studydivided the study objects into the experimental group (10people, doing Taijiquanexercise with simplified24Style for12weeks) and control group (10people, livingnormally according to their previous way of life), then do statistical analysis on thescores of mood state and general well-being and the indexs of body shape and bodycomposition of the two groups before and after the experiment. The results show:(1) Through the questionnaire survey analysis, Oriental Exercise has beenaccepted and loved by professional women who have higher degree and engaged inintellectual work. The proportion of professional women who participate in it andexercise3times a week reach to82.8%，and81.7%do more than30minutes in everyexercises. In moon state and subjective well-being, the scores of Oriental Exercise group were significantly higher than that in non exercise group, but similar with otherexercise group. So the level of mood state and subjective well-being of professionalwomen who had been take part in physical exercise was higher than who had noexercise.(2) After12weeks of Oriental Exercise, the statistical test of mood state betweenexperimental group and control group had significant difference (P<0.05); thestatistical test of mood state before and after experimental in experimental group hadstatistically significant difference (P<0.001), while the statistical test of mood statebefore and after the experiment in control group had no significant difference.(3) After12weeks of Oriental Exercise, the statistical test of general well-beinglevel between experimental group and control group had significant difference(P<0.05); the statistical test in4subscales of worry about health, energy, control ofthe emotion and behavior, relaxation and tension and the total scores of generalwell-being before and after experimental in experimental group had statisticallysignificant difference (P values are all less than0.05); there was no significantdifference in the2subscales of life satisfaction and interest, depression or happymood, but the scores after the experiment had improved than before the experiment;there was no significant difference in general well-being and each subscale statisticaltest of control group before and after the experiment.(4) After12weeks of Oriental Exercise, it had decreased significantly in5indexof weight, BMI, fat mass, percentage of body fat, waist-to-hip ratio in theexperimental group, there were significant differences in statistical tests (P<0.05).There was no significant difference in the control group.(5) After12weeks of Oriental Exercise, it had decreased significantly in4bodycircumference of waist circumference, upper arm circumference, thigh circumference,calf circumference in experimental group, there were significant differences instatistical tests (P<0.05); the chest and hip of2body circumference had slightly beenincreased, but not obvious. There was no significant difference of every bodycircumference in the control group.(6) Body fat percentage, fat mass and general well-being were negativelycorrelated (P<0.01、r<-0.8); body weight, BMI and general well-being were moderate negatively correlated (P<0.05、r<-0.5); fat free weight and subjective well-being wereweak positively correlated (P>0.05、r>0.3).