Research On Correlation Of Basketball, Mental Resilience And Subjective Well-being In College Students

BackgroundPhysical exercise could relieve stress, relieve fatigue and treat psychogenic disorder. Different sports had effects of different levels on human’s psychological status. Basketball was one of the important ways of contemporary college students’ campus sports. To figure out whether basketball could effectively cultivate and enhance the level of mental resilience and subjective well-being is valid for theory and practice.ObjectiveThe investigations on undergraduates were finished to research the relationship among basketball, mental resilience, and subjective well-being.Methods(1) A questionnaire was conducted with undergraduates of 3 universities in Henan province for collecting data by using cluster random sampling.601 questionnaires were collected. Among them 556 questionnaires were effective and the effective rate of recovery of questionnaires was 92.5%.(2) The following scales were adopted,<Questionnaire about Participation in Basketball>、Questionnaire about Adolescent Mental Resilience> made by Hu Yueqin and Gan Yiqun、Questiornaire about Comprehensive Sense of Happiness>made by Campell.(3) Independent samples t test, variance analysis, correlation analysis and regression analysis with SPSS 17.0 software package were used for statistical analysis.ResultsCollege students who ever participated basketball had higher scores in the mental resilience, the positive cognitive factor and the subjective well-being index, than the ones who never participated basketball (7=7.87,P<0.01; t=2.12, P<0.05; t=2.59, P<0.05).Male college students had higher scores than the female in the basketball movement and emotional control (t=7.87, P<0.001; t=1.61, P<0.05), but had lower scores in the interpersonal assist and the happiness index (t=-0.29, P<0.05;t=-2.59, P<0.05). There were significant differences of different grade in the basketball movement (F=3.60, P<0.05), emotional control (F=2.95, P<0.05). The students from town had lower scores in emotional control than the students from country (t=-2.11, P<0.05).The only-children students had higher scores than the not-only-children students in the basketball movement (t=2.21, P<0.05), but had lower scores in the emotional control (T=-2.50, P<0.05). There were significant differences of different physical condition in the basketball movement (F=1.70, P<0.05), emotional control (F=3.77, P<0.01), happiness index (F=6.04, P<0.001).There were significant differences of different health concerns in the basketball movement (F=1.21, P<0.01), focused (F=7.16, P<0.001), positive cognitive (F=2.39, P<0.05), happiness index (F=2.95, P<0.05).In the basketball movement, exercise intensity, duration, frequency and total scores of basketball was significantly positively related to psychological elastic concentration factor (P<0.05; P<0.01; P<0.05; P<0.01), and had significant negative correlation with emotional control factor (P<0.01; P<0.01; P<0.01; P<0.01).and duration of basketball had significant negative correlation with interpersonal helping (P<0.05). Basketball total scores were significantly positively related to happiness index (P<0.01). Emotional control, positive cognition was significantly positively related to well-being index (P<0.01; P<0.01). Regression analysis showed that basketball movement, emotional control and positive cognition had positive prediction function to the happiness index. Conclusions(1) Participating basketball influenced on the mental resilience and subjective well-being in college students.(2) There were significant differences in the basketball exercise, mental resilience and subjective well-being of different gender, grade, whether or not only children, physical condition and health concerns.(3) Basketball and mental resilience had positive prediction function to subjective well-being.