(Department of Physical Education,Hunan First Normal University,Changsha 410205,China) Abstract: The purpose of this study is to probe into the mechanism of action of the sense of self efficacy in physical exercising on the degree of physical exercising participation by college students with a prominent physical health problem, i.e. whether the sense of self efficacy in physical exercising will produce effects on the degree of physical exercising participation by college students with a prominent physical health problem through the function of me-diation of self target consistence. By using the method of questionnaire survey, the authors studied 1624 college students with a prominent physical health problem who were sampled from 8 institutes of higher learning in Hunan, and revealed the following findings: 1)there was a significant positive correlation between the sense of self efficacy in physical exercising or self target consistence and the degree of physical exercising participation; 2)the sense of self efficacy in physical exercising had a positive effect on self target consistence or the degree of physical exercis-ing participation; 3)self target consistence had a positive effect on the degree of physical exercising participation; 4)self target consistence had a complete function of mediation between the sense of self efficacy in physical exer-cising and the degree of physical exercising participation; initiative motives had a partial function of mediation be-tween the sense of self efficacy in physical exercising and the degree of physical exercising participation; the func-tion of mediation of controlling motives between the sense of self efficacy in physical exercising and the degree of physical exercising participation was not significant. Key words: sports psychology;prominent physical health problem;sense of self efficacy in physical exercising;self target consistence;degree of physical exercising participation |