(School of Physical Education,Northeast Normal University,Changchun 130024,China) Abstract: By basing his research subject on 800 on-campus regular college students at Northeast Normal Univer-sity, the author investigated and studied the current state of extracurricular physical exercising and sleep quality re-garding college students, and revealed the following findings: at present, there is a serious problem with college students’ sleep quality, and female college students’ sleep quality problem is more serious than male students’; col-lege students’ extracurricular physical exercising has a significant positive effect on their sleep quality; and such an effect is achieved through such three sleep quality affecting factors as daytime dysfunction, conscious sleep quality and time taken to fall asleep. Key words: exercise psychology;extracurricular physical exercising;sleep quality;college student |