The Effect Of Exercise On The College Students' Mental Health Diathesis:the Mediating Effect Of Mental Toughness

The pressure of academics,employment and emotion together results in serious mental health problems of college students,their psychological quality was also questioned by public.At this time,pay attention to the construction of psychological quality in the development of college students' psychological quality has become a new attempt to solve mental health problems.Studies have shown that exercise can in a significant way predict the mental health diathesis.At the same time,researchers have found that exercise is one of the many factors that affect the mental health diathesis and the influence between the two variables may also be affected by some mediator variables.But the principle of this mechanism of influence is still with exploration.Therefore,this research aims to investigate the development process of individual psychological changes induced by physical exercise,and use PARS-3,MTI8 and the CSMHDQ as the research tools surveying 777 university students to examine the mediating effect of mental toughness between exercise and college students' mental health diathesis.The findings are shown as follows:(1)The overall situation of college students participating in physical exercise is not optimistic.The level of psychological toughness is moderately low,and the level of mental health diathesis is medium to high.(2)The effect of gender,grade in exercise,mental toughness,and mental health diathesis were significant;There was a marginal difference between exercise volume and mental toughness,and a significant difference in mental health diathesis in different regions;As for the discipline,there was a significant difference in exercise capacity;The longer the duration of exercise is,the higher the mental toughness and mental health diathesis are,with the significant differences.(3)There was a positive correlation among physical exercise,mental toughness,and mental health diathesis.(4)Physical exercise and mental toughness significantly and positively predicted the college students' mental health diathesis and its four dimensions.Mental toughness partially mediated the relationship between physical exercise and college students' mental health diathesis,which indicated that physical exercise indirectly affected the mental health diathesis through mental toughness.