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The Relationship among College Students’ Physical Exercise, Self-Efficacy, Emotional Intelligence, and Subjective Well-Being

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  • Kun Wang

    (Research Centre for Exercise Detoxification, College of Physical Education, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Yan Li

    (Research Centre for Exercise Detoxification, College of Physical Education, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Tingran Zhang

    (Research Centre for Exercise Detoxification, College of Physical Education, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China)

  • Jiong Luo

    (Research Centre for Exercise Detoxification, College of Physical Education, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China)

Abstract

Purpose: To deeply analyze the influencing factors on college students’ subjective well-being and the path mechanism between each factor. Method: The physical activity rating scale (PARS-3), the emotional intelligence scale (EIS), the self-efficacy scale (GSES), and the subjective well-being scale (SWS) were used for 826 students from two comprehensive universities in southwest China. College students conducted a questionnaire survey, and used SPSS22.0 and AMOS21.0 statistical software to process and analyze the obtained data. Results: (1) Physical exercise was significantly positively correlated with self-efficacy, emotional intelligence, and subjective well-being; self-efficacy was significantly positively correlated with emotional intelligence and subjective well-being; emotional intelligence was significantly positively correlated with subjective well-being; (2) Physical exercise has a direct positive predictive effect on subjective well-being (ES = 0.16); (3) Self-efficacy (ES = 0.057) and emotional intelligence (ES = 0.077) play a part in mediating the role between physical exercise and subjective well-being, respectively. Meanwhile, the chain mediation effect (ES = 0.026) of self-efficacy and emotional intelligence also achieved a significant level, among them, only others’ emotional management and emotional application were involved in the regulation of emotional intelligence. Conclusions: Actively participating in physical exercise could not only directly improve the level of subjective well-being of college students but also indirectly affect their subjective well-being by improving their self-efficacy, as well as their emotional management and emotional application abilities, thereby improving college students’ life satisfaction feelings of happiness, such as degree, positive emotion, and negative emotion.

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  • Kun Wang & Yan Li & Tingran Zhang & Jiong Luo, 2022. "The Relationship among College Students’ Physical Exercise, Self-Efficacy, Emotional Intelligence, and Subjective Well-Being," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(18), pages 1-14, September.
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