Volume 29, Issue 2
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.234
ANALYSIS ON EMOTIONAL INDUCTION EFFECT OF BALL GAMES AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS
Abstract
Emotion is a natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one’s circumstances, mood, or relationships with others. It offers a good evaluation index of psychological health. This paper attempts to reveal the emotional induction effect of ball games among college students. Thus, a questionnaire survey was carried out in four colleges of Baoding, China, using instruments like exercise-induced feeling inventory (EFI) and Gao’s brief BFS profile of mood states. The survey covers five kinds of ball games, namely, volleyball, ping pong, tennis, football and basketball. The survey data were analyzed to determine the emotions induced by different ball games, and the exercise-induced emotions of different subjects. The results show that, among the five kinds of ball games, basketball and tennis bring many psychological benefits, such as active sports emotion, psychological pleasure and sense of identity; basketball makes college students, especially male students, more energetic and confident, less nervous and high-spirited; after playing basketball, no obvious difference was observed between professionals and amateurs in college, and amateur female college students have much lower scores in vitality, physiological fatigue and active input than their professional counterparts. The research results enrich the empirical evidence for emotional induction of ball games.
Keywords
Ball Games, College Students, Exercise-Induced Emotions, Questionnaire Survey.