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http://dx.doi.org/10.14400/JDC.2019.17.7.423

The Influence of Chinese University Students' Motives for Participating in Required Taekwondo Courses on Their Subjective Sense of Well-being in Their Individual Lives

Li, Jing (Dept. of Physical Education, Graduate School, Dong-A University)
Kim, Seung-Yong (Major in Physical Education, Graduate School of Education, Dong-A University)

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Journal of Digital Convergence / v.17, no.7, 2019 , pp. 423-431 More about this Journal

Abstract

The objective of this study was to survey Chinese university students taking a required taekwondo course, with a goal to understand the impact of motives for participating in required university physical education courses on the subjective sense of well-being of the students. To achieve this end, the current study selected 256 students participating in a required taekwondo course in a university located in Shaanxi Province, China, as final effective samples. SPSS 22.0 was used to process the data, and the analysis results are as follows: First, Chinese university students' motives of participating in required physical education courses were positively correlated with their subjective well-being. More specifically, cognitive motivation, intellectual motivation, and social motivation, in that order, had significant correlation with positive emotions. Second, intellectual motivation was found to have a positive correlation with sense of satisfaction in life, while cognitive motivation had a negative correlation with sense of satisfaction in life. Third, intellectual and cognitive motivations were found to influence positive emotions, but social motivation was found not to have an influence on all areas of subjective sense of well-being. In addition, intellectual, cognitive, and social motivations were found not to have an influence on negative emotions.

Keywords

Physical Education; Taekwondo Class; Participation Motivation; Individual Lives; Subjective Sense of Well-being;

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