Exploring the correlation between exercise motivation, football exercise investment, and mental health among college students

Jian Zhao () and Xuesong Bo ()

International Journal of Innovative Research and Scientific Studies, 2025, vol. 8, issue 1, 355-368

Abstract: The study investigates the relationship between participation in sports activities and the mental health of the students. As an intrinsic psychological factor driving individual sports behavior, sports motivation is an essential factor influencing the persistence of individual sports participation. Individuals can improve their psychological well-being by adjusting exercise motivation and promoting active sports participation. Football exercise investment refers to an individual’s autonomous, positive, lasting, and immersive psychological state, as well as their joyful experience of participating in football exercise. This study takes 1124 college students, from freshman to senior, as the research subjects. The study employs the questionnaire survey method and uses SPSS 27.0 and AMOS 24.0 as data analysis tools. It can be concluded that a negative correlation exists between football exercise investment and individual psychological health, whereas a partial mediating effect of exercise motivation exists between football exercise investment and the psychological health of college students. Football exercise investment requires students to participate personally and have a certain amount of physical load during the training. Engaging in football exercises requires communication with others, and certain sports necessitate close cooperation. It can bring pleasure to the body and mind, strengthen physical fitness, cultivate positive psychological emotions, enhance individual happiness, and promote improving mental health. The mediating effect of soccer exercise involvement on exercise motivation and mental health is analyzed and discussed. We examine the overall situation of college students’ exercise motivation, soccer exercise involvement, and mental health, as well as their differences in demographic variables, by exploring the relationship between these factors.

Keywords: College students; Exercise motivation; Individual psychological health; Mental health; Soccer exercise engagement; Soccer training involvement. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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