| （Department of Physical Education，Huizhou University，Huizhou 516007，China) Abstract: By applying methods such as Symptom Checklist 90 (SCL-90), the author investigated the current condi-tion of mental health of the home-alone elder in rural areas in the Pearl River Delta region, made up exercise pre-scriptions to do an intervention experiment on them, thus analyzed the effects of physical exercising on the level of mental health of the home-alone elderly, and revealed the following findings: 1) the level of mental health of the home-alone elderly in rural areas in the Pearl River Delta region was lower than the normal level nationwide; the level of mental health of the home-alone elderly in rural areas in the Pearl River Delta region was lower than that of the non home-alone elder, and the difference was significant; 3) after physical exercising intervention, the level of mental health of the home-alone elderly in rural areas in the Pearl River Delta region increased generally, and the difference between the results measured before and after intervention was significant.
Key words: sports psychology；mental health；physical exercising intervention；the home-alone elderly in rural areas；the Pearl River Delta region |
