The Relationship Between Square Dance And Middle-aged Women's Emotions: Analysis Of Multiple Mediating Effects

As a popular group exercise for middle-aged and elderly women,Guangchangwu has a positive effect on improving emotion.However,few studies have pointed out the factors through which Guangchangwu affects emotion and how these factors affect the relationship between Guangchangwu and emotion.Therefore,this study focuses on the emotional states of middle-aged and elderly women,and selects four individual emotional states: depression,anxiety,negative emotion and positive emotion to explore the influence of Guangchangwu on the emotion of middle-aged and elderly women.Secondly,this study further introduces interpersonal relationship,social support and cognitive reappraisal as mediator variables to explore the mediator effects of the three in the relationship between Guangchangwu and the emotion of middle-aged and elderly women.Finally,this study explores the chain mediating mechanisms of interpersonal relationship,social support and cognitive reappraisal between Guangchangwu and emotional states through constructing the multiple mediation model.In this study,using the questionnaire survey method,581 middle-aged and elderly women over 45 years old who took part in Guangchangwu were investigated by using �Physical Activity Rating Scale-3�,�Interpersonal Relationship Integrative Diagnostic Scale�,�Self-Rating Anxiety Scale�,�Self-Rating Depression Scale�,�Social Support Rating Scale�,�Emotion Regulation Questionnaire� and �Positive and Negative Affect Scale� through the method of convenience sampling.And the number of recycling valid questionnaires was 528.The data were collated and analyzed by SPSS 24.0 and its Process 3.3 macro program,Mplus 8.0.The results show that the path coefficients among the other variables are significant except for the interpersonal relationship and cognitive reappraisal.In addition,this study used the Bootstrapping method to test the mediator effects of all paths.The results show that the 95% confidence interval of the other paths doesn't contain 0 except for "Guangchangwu ? interpersonal relationship ? cognitive reappraisal ? depression,anxiety,negative emotion and positive emotion",which indicates that the other paths are valid.Therefore,the conclusions of this study are as follows:1.Guangchangwu can positively predict positive emotion of middle-aged and elderly women,and negatively predict negative emotion and depression of middle-aged and elderly women.But it has no significant correlation with anxiety.2.The three mediator variables of interpersonal relationship,social support and cognitive reappraisal have the mediator effects between Guangchangwu and depression,anxiety,negative emotion and positive emotion.3.Interpersonal relationship has the mediator effects between Guangchangwu and depression,anxiety,negative emotion and positive emotion through social support;Social support has the mediator effects between Guangchangwu and depression,anxiety,negative emotion and positive emotion through cognitive reappraisal;Interpersonal relationship has the mediator effects between Guangchangwu and depression,anxiety,negative emotion and positive emotion through social support and cognitive reappraisal.4.On the whole,the multiple mediation model of the relationship between Guangchangwu and the emotion of middle-aged and elderly women completely mediates the effects of Guangchangwu on depression,anxiety,negative emotion and positive emotion.It shows that the model of this study can explain part of the mechanisms of emotional benefits of middle-aged and elderly people who participate in Guangchangwu.