| （School of Physical Education，Jiangxi Normal University，Nanchang 330027，China） Abstract: In order to probe into the roles played by age and gender in adjusting the relation between physical exer-cising and self-perceptions, the authors carried out a questionnaire survey on people at different ages, including 422 middle school students, college students, middle age people and elderly people, by using self-perceptions closely related to mental health as the indexes, such as physical attraction, physical value and overall self-esteem, and re-vealed the following findings: gender plays a role in adjusting the relation between physical exercising and physical attraction, while age plays a role in adjusting the relation between physical exercising and physical value; but gender and age do not play a role in adjusting the relation between physical exercising and overall self-esteem. The said findings indicate that age and gender play a certain role in adjusting the relations between physical exercising and self-perceptions.
Key words: sports psychology；self-perception；physical exercising；overall self-esteem |
