The influence of sport motivation on college students’ subjective exercise experience: a mediation model with moderation
BackgroundThe degree to which an individual experiences a positive emotional state after exercise is a measurement of how much enjoyment sports bring to the individual. This can also be seen as the individual’s essential motivation for engaging in sports, and an indirect means of improving the indiv...
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| description | BackgroundThe degree to which an individual experiences a positive emotional state after exercise is a measurement of how much enjoyment sports bring to the individual. This can also be seen as the individual’s essential motivation for engaging in sports, and an indirect means of improving the individual’s physical health. Therefore, it is necessary to explore the factors that affect college students’ subjective exercise experience and their effecting mechanism, thereby providing a basis for promoting college students’ positive emotional experience after exercise.MethodsA questionnaire survey on 600 college students was conducted to examine the mediating effect of sport-confidence on the relationship between college students’ sport motivation and their subjective exercise experience, and to investigate whether this process is moderated by the feelings of inadequacy.ResultsThe indirect effect of sport-confidence was significant (95% CI [0.133, 0.276]), and the index of moderated mediation Bootstrap 95% CI [0.003, 0.017] did not contain 0.ConclusionThe results indicated that: (1) sport-confidence had a partial mediating effect between college students’ sport motivation and their subjective exercise experience; (2) the mediating effect of sport-confidence was moderated by the feelings of inadequacy, and the feelings of inadequacy moderated the latter half path of the mediating process of sport motivation - sport-confidence - subjective exercise experience. Therefore, the influence of college students’ sport motivation on their subjective exercise experience is a moderated mediating model. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a271d9ecbbfa4c0586f50dccea937cde2023-08-31T13:27:12ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782023-08-011410.3389/fpsyg.2023.12194841219484The influence of sport motivation on college students’ subjective exercise experience: a mediation model with moderationFengbo Liu0Ning Li1School of Physical Education, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Zhengzhou, Henan, ChinaSchool of Physical Education, Putian University, Putian, Fujian, ChinaBackgroundThe degree to which an individual experiences a positive emotional state after exercise is a measurement of how much enjoyment sports bring to the individual. This can also be seen as the individual’s essential motivation for engaging in sports, and an indirect means of improving the individual’s physical health. Therefore, it is necessary to explore the factors that affect college students’ subjective exercise experience and their effecting mechanism, thereby providing a basis for promoting college students’ positive emotional experience after exercise.MethodsA questionnaire survey on 600 college students was conducted to examine the mediating effect of sport-confidence on the relationship between college students’ sport motivation and their subjective exercise experience, and to investigate whether this process is moderated by the feelings of inadequacy.ResultsThe indirect effect of sport-confidence was significant (95% CI [0.133, 0.276]), and the index of moderated mediation Bootstrap 95% CI [0.003, 0.017] did not contain 0.ConclusionThe results indicated that: (1) sport-confidence had a partial mediating effect between college students’ sport motivation and their subjective exercise experience; (2) the mediating effect of sport-confidence was moderated by the feelings of inadequacy, and the feelings of inadequacy moderated the latter half path of the mediating process of sport motivation - sport-confidence - subjective exercise experience. Therefore, the influence of college students’ sport motivation on their subjective exercise experience is a moderated mediating model.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1219484/fullsport motivationsubjective exercise experiencesport-confidencefeelings of inadequacymediation model with moderation |
| spellingShingle | Fengbo Liu Ning Li The influence of sport motivation on college students’ subjective exercise experience: a mediation model with moderation Frontiers in Psychology sport motivation subjective exercise experience sport-confidence feelings of inadequacy mediation model with moderation |
| title | The influence of sport motivation on college students’ subjective exercise experience: a mediation model with moderation |
| title_full | The influence of sport motivation on college students’ subjective exercise experience: a mediation model with moderation |
| title_fullStr | The influence of sport motivation on college students’ subjective exercise experience: a mediation model with moderation |
| title_full_unstemmed | The influence of sport motivation on college students’ subjective exercise experience: a mediation model with moderation |
| title_short | The influence of sport motivation on college students’ subjective exercise experience: a mediation model with moderation |
| title_sort | influence of sport motivation on college students subjective exercise experience a mediation model with moderation |
| topic | sport motivation subjective exercise experience sport-confidence feelings of inadequacy mediation model with moderation |
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