Research On College Students’ Physical Exercise, Body-esteem And Optimistic Personality

College time is the period that students’ physiology and psychology becoming more and more mature,however, there is always a gap between the ideal and the reality during this period. Nowadays college students are facing with increasingly fierce competition, so if they want to be more competitive in the daily life, education experience and job applying,they must have reinforced physical and mental quality.Thus,fully understand the relationship among students’ physical exercise, optimistic personality and body-esteem can help college students to know themselves better, promote their optimistic personality and body-esteem level,and perfect their personality,and,eventually, better adapt to today’s fast paced, high efficient and competitive society.This study surveyed 600 sophomore students from different majors through questionnaires named "the Physical Exercise State Questionnaires" "the College Students’ Body-esteem Questionnaire" and "Optimistic Personality Tendency Questionnaires" and these students surveyed are samples of two Undergraduate colleges(Zhengzhou University and Henan University of Economics and Law) and two academies(Zhongzhou University and Henan Polytechnic)and used spass17.0 statistical software to analyze the data obtained.The results showed below:(1)Generally speaking,the condition of university students in Zhengzhou doing physical exercises is optimistic and most college students have the consciousness of doing physical exercise. In terms of the choice of sports events,the boys like basketball and soccer ball best while the girls prefer running and fitness aerobics, and this suggests that boys prefer to participate in competitive and confrontational group projects while girls prefer soothing body aerobic exercise; Overall, running is a common choice of university students in Zhengzhou. "Feeling of insufficient exercises " is a major motivation of college students to do physical exercises.Moreover, in terms of exercising motivation, the proportion of various projects chose is diversified between boys and girls: boys place emphasis on body building and communicating through exercising while girls pay more attention to psychological adjustment and figure shaping. "Lazy" is the main factor restricting college students to do physical exercise, while "lacking of time", "heavy learning task" and "lacking of infrastructure" are other important factors. In addition,college students often do physical exercise together with friends or classmates.(2)The level of body-esteem of university students in Zhengzhou is above the average.It’s also suggested that the level of body-esteem is diversified in terms of sex,origin of students and the education background.(3) The frequency,time and magnitude of exercising can cause the diversify of the level of body-esteem and there’s a positive correlation between them.(4) The level of Optimistic Personality of university students in Zhengzhou is also above the average.And this level shows no diversification as far as sex but shows great differences towards origin of students and slice differences towards education backgrounds.(5) The physical self-esteem level shows great differences towards different frequency with a positive correlationship and time of exercising while no differences towards different magnitude.