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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Sport Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1536487
This article is part of the Research Topic Psychological Factors in Physical Education and Sport - Volume V View all 24 articles
The Relationship between Mandatory Exercise and Exercise Habits in Chinese Colleges and Universities: An Analysis of Multiple Mediating Effects
Provisionally accepted- 1 Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei, China
- 2 Beijing Sport University, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
- 3 School of Physical Education, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China
This study aims to explore the relationship between mandatory exercise and exercise habits in colleges and universities and to investigate the multiple mediating effects of self-efficacy and exercise attitudes. The study adopted convenience sampling, with 589 junior students as the research subjects, and conducted a questionnaire survey using professional scales. The results show that mandatory exercise in colleges and universities has a significant positive effect on the formation of exercise habits. Self-efficacy and exercise attitudes play a significant mediating role and chain mediating effect between mandatory exercise and exercise habits, with the direct effect being the most significant, followed by the chaining effect, the mediating effect of self-efficacy, and the mediating effect of exercise attitudes. This study further reveals the internal mechanism underlying the relationship between mandatory exercise and exercise habits, which is highly important for promoting the development of "exercise habits", i.e., the overall development of college and university students.
Keywords: 大学和大学, 强制性练习, 运动习惯, 自我效能, 运动态度学院和大学, 运动态度
Received: 29 Nov 2024; Accepted: 03 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Guo, Cao, Wu and Kuang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Dawei Cao, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei, China
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