Physical exercise intervention on mental health and negative emotions of college students

Abstract

Many college students are faced with mental health problems under the intensified competition in modern society. From the angle of physical exercise, this paper attempts to study the mental health of college students and develop a suitable strategy to cope with negative emotions. A three-week physical exercise intervention was implemented for college students with certain mental health problems. The changes of negative emotions through the intervention were captured and analysed to reflect how physical exercise affects the mental health of college students. The results show that negative emotions are prevalent among college students; the physical exercise can ease the negative emotions to a certain extent; antagonistic and non-antagonistic physical exercises differ in their intervention effects on different psychological problems. The research results enrich the theories on the mental health of college students and provide a guide for relieving their negative emotions.