(College of Physical Education and Healthy,East China Normal University,Shanghai 200062,China) Abstract: Based on their analysis of findings in exercise psychological researches, the authors pointed out that a lot of problems exist in the construction and development of the discipline of exercise psychology in China, such as uncompleted theoretical system, mediocre disciplinary research team, insufficient combination of theory and prac-tice, backward research methods and means, and lagged construction of the curriculum system and teaching materi-als. Hence, the authors suggested that a scientific view of development should be established for exercise psychol-ogy in such aspects as guiding ideology, disciplinary team construction and scientific research, basic theory and ap-plication, research methods and means, as well as research guiding ideas, so as to boost the comprehensive, harmo-nious and sustainable development of exercise psychology in China. Key words: exercise psychology;background of disciplinary development;talent cultivation;scientific view of development |