The effect of exercise intention on exercise behavior in the post-epidemic era: The moderator role of openness personality and the mediated role of exercise-induced feeling

Abstract

ObjectiveBased on the theory of planned behavior, this study introduced personality traits and exercise-induced feelings and other third variables, aiming to explore the mechanism of personality traits and exercise-induced feelings between exercise intention and exercise behavior, and explore the internal mechanism of promoting exercise behavior of junior high school students.MethodsThis research adopts the Exercise Intention Questionnaire, Simple Big Five Personality Scale, Exercise-induced Feeling Inventory and Exercise Rating Scale, from the three cities of Anhui province 1,166 junior high school students selected from the group psychological measurement, and uses the SPSS23.0 and Process plug-in exercise intention in exercise behavior analysis of the direct and indirect effect.ResultsThe results showed that: (1) Exercise intention significantly positively predicted exercise behavior (β = 0.265, t = 4.261, p < 0.01). (2) The moderating effect of openness personality between exercise intention and exercise behavior was significant (β = 0.093, t = 4.431, p < 0.01). (3) Exercise-induced feelings has a significant mediating effect on the relationship between exercise intention and exercise behavior regulated by openness personality.ConclusionExercise intention can effectively predict exercise behavior, and the prediction level is affected by openness personality, and the moderating effect of openness personality is partially realized through the mediating variable of exercise-induced feelings.

Personality, negative affectivity and emotional intelligence: gender-differentiated relationships with physical exercise

“…Similarly, awareness and agreeableness tend to improve performance in athletes ( Stine et al, 2019 ), but in young people, openness and agreeableness are negatively related to the probability being physically active ( Bessey, 2018 ; Hearon and Harrison, 2021 ), and athletes have significantly higher consciousness sores than do people who do not engage in physical exercise ( Michałowska-Sawczyn et al, 2019 ; Humińska-Lisowska et al, 2022 ). Finally, elite athletes show greater openness than do average athletes ( Mitić et al, 2021 ), and openness has a moderating effect between exercise intention and exercise behavior ( Ma et al, 2022 ).…”