Revision And Inspection On Adolescent Psychological Need Support In Exercise Questionnaire

Objective: The author revised the APNSEQ scale established by Lydia G.Emm-Collison et al.to verify the feasibility of APNSEQ(Chinese version)in China.And the author explored the predictive effect on exercise behavior by the psychological need suppoet and what the author done can provide reference in promoting adolescents' participation in physical exercise.Methods: The author used stratified random sampling method to investigate 1750 students in three schools in Nanping.The survey was conducted in three times and the effective recoverary rate is 84.6%,83.8% and 88.2% respectively.The author used SPSS23.0 and AMOS17.0 software to carry out item analysis,exploratory factor analysis,confirmatory factor analysis,reliability analysis and also used structural equation model to test the impact of different groups' psychological needs on the exercise behavior of adolescents.Results: In item analysis,each item of the three scales had good discriminability and was suitable for different subjects.In exploratory factor analysis,we can find that parents,classmates and PE teacher's psychological need support can all be divided into three demensions,that is,independent support,ability support and relationship support.The results of confirmatory factor analysis show that the three models have good fitness.The clonal Bacha coefficients of the three scales were 0.930,0.933 and 0.956,which indicated that the three scales had good reliability.There are significant differences in gender,grade and place of residence between different groups and there is no significant difference in only child.The author regarded the exercise psychological needs satisfaction as the mediator variable and added it to structure model of different groups of support youth exercise behavior.In the parental support youth exercise behavior and established parents.classmates and PE teaches these three mediator models.The result indicated good goodness of fit and explained 15%.15% and 14% exercise behaviors variance respectively.Conclusion: APNSEQ(Chinese version)has good reliability and validity.Gender,grade and place of residence have influence on different groups' psychological needs for exercise support.After the author increased the satisfaction of exercise psychological needs as a mediating variable,the explanatory rates of variance of the three models were15%,15% and 14%,respectively,which indicated that each model could accept the analytical framework.Therefore,the Chinese version of the "APNSEQ" scale can be used to test the impact of different groups' psychological needs on the exercise behavior of adolescents.