| （Department of Exercise Science and Health Promotion，Guangzhou Sport University，Guangzhou 510500，China) Abstract: The authors surveyed 664 teenagers based on the basic psychological needs theory (BPNT) and by using such 3 scales as the sense of independent support of sport, basic psychological needs for sport and subjective vital-ity, so as to verify the mediating role played by basic psychological needs in between the sense of independent sup-port of sport and the subjective vitality of teenagers, and revealed the following findings: the sense of independent support of sport can positively predict subjective vitality; all the 3 basic psychological needs can positively predict subjective vitality, but their statuses are not the same, the most important one is ability need, followed by independ-ence need, and tailed by relationship need; the mediating effect verification results showed that 3 basic psychologi-cal needs played a partial mediating role in between the sense of independent support of sport and subjective vitality. Conclusions: the status order and mediating role of 3 basic psychological needs are context-specific; physical edu-cation teachers should provide an independently supported teaching environment, meet teenagers’ basic psycho-logical needs, and thus promote their subjective vitality, healthiness and happiness.
Key words: sports psychology；basic psychological need；sense of independent support of sport；subjective vitality；mediating effect；teenager |
