Research On The Relationship Between Physical Activity And Urban Elderly SWB

Participate in appropriate physical exercise is an effective measure to maintain physical and mental health. People’s physical exercise behavior, is not only limited to the pursuit of health, in essence, is the pursuit of happiness. The subjective of happiness perception combines with personal world outlook, philosophy and the sense of value. Individuals have its own way for the expected happy life according to its education level, cognitive ability and life experience. Equipped with scientific and reasonable view of happiness could guide people how to move forward on the road of life. Self-efficacy and social support plays a significant role in physical exercise and the sense of happiness. Having intensive study, in this area is important to improve elderly life quality, psychological harmony and promote harmonious society development.This analysis is based on residents in Changsha city, and uses the stratified random method to collect sample. This samples area designated for the six districts in Changsha city, twenty communities are selected from these six districts and randomly selected from 75 people in each community, so that, the total sample size is 1500 people. After eliminated the invalid questionnaires, the valid sample size is 1308 questionnaires, then extract 315 questionnaires who over 55 ages. This study mainly adopts three methodologies, respectively for questionnaire survey, scale measurement methodology and mathematical statistics methodology.After deeply analyze the statistics, this study could conclude 6 aspects. 1. Elderly who takes physical exercise feels happier than who didn’t have physical exercise; 2. Elderly occasional or never take any exercise doesn’t have a significant impact on people’s sense of happiness. And the longer time to insist to exercise, the more happiness could be felt in the elderly group; 3. The sense of subjective happiness is different due to the different intensive exercise, the highly intensive physical exercise could lead to low sense of subjective happiness; 4. Mild and moderate physical intensity is more suitable for elderly group; 5. As compared to physical exercise intensity and sustainability, the latter has more obvious effect on elderly‘s sense of subjective happiness; 6.Physical exercise could not directly affect the elderly life satisfaction, however, through self-efficacy, social support and other intermediary variables could affect the elderly life satisfaction.