A Study On The Impulsivity Of Exercise-dependent College Students

Exercise dependence refers to the individual who develops the exercise into compulsive behavior.Individuals with exercise-dependence tendencies or minds regard exercise as the most important thing,and if the exercise plan is blocked,the individual feels bored,irritable or lost.Impulsivity is the psychological tendency of individuals to make quick and unplanned responses to internal and external stimulations,and ignoring the reaction will or not cause adverse consequences for themselves and others,impulsivity is important for the adaptation and development of individuals.In order to fully understand the status of college student` exercise-dependence and study the impulsivity of college students,this paper has carried on three studies.In the first study,many college students in Wuhu City of Anhui Province were selected as the subjects,and the exercise addiction inventory were distributed.520 effective questionnaires were retrieved and the questionnaire efficiency was 91.23%.By analyzing the general questionnaire and the exercise addiction inventory,the detection rate of exercise dependence in this study was 9.81%.The detection rate is higher in boys,the liberal arts students,high exercise frequency students,long exercise time students than that of girls,science students,low frequency of exercise and short exercise time students.Among them,the number of weekly exercise and the time of each exercise could be used as effective predictors of exercise dependence.College students were most often involved in running or climbing,the main purpose of exercise was fitness.The second study was based on the subjects of the former study and used the Barratt Impulsivity Scale(BIS-11)to study the trait impulsivity of exercise-dependent students,and found that there was a problem of the trait impulsivity on them,the trait impulsivity of college students was significantly higher than those of the control college students.In the last study,the exercise-dependent group and the control group were selected by the exercise addiction inventory,and the stop-signal task(SST)was used to investigate the cognitive impulsivity of college students.In contrast to the behavioral impulsive dimension of the second study,there was no significant difference in the scores of college students who stopped the signal from the control group.This study suggested that the trait impulsivity of college students was higher,but their cognitive impulsivity needed further study.In view of the detection rate of exercise dependence and its adverse effects,it is necessary to attach importance to the problem of exercise dependence and even to intervene.