(School of Physical Education,South China Normal University,Guangzhou 510006,China) Abstract: By applying random stratified sampling method, the author selected on campus female university stu-dents of non physical education major at 11 universities in Guangdong province as the investigation subjects, probed into the relationship between the body self-esteem of female normal university students and female non normal university students and physical exercise, and revealed the following findings: 1) in terms of sense of self-worth and physical quality, there was a significant difference (P<0.05) between the bodies of female normal university students and female non normal university students; in terms of exercise time or total exercise volume, female normal uni-versity students’ was obviously longer/higher than female non normal university students’, and there were a very significant difference (P<0.01) and a significant difference (P<0.05) respectively; 2) under different exercise vol-umes, female normal university students’ sense of self-worth and physical quality were all higher than female non normal university students’, and they focused more on physical exercise time and volume; 3) in terms sense of self-worth and physical quality dimensions under different exercise volumes, there was a significant difference be-tween female normal university students and female non normal university students (P<0.05); via multiple com-parisons the author found that the scores for 5 dimensions of body self-esteem under high exercise volume were all higher than those under low exercise volume; 4) with the increase of exercise volume, female normal university students’ 5 dimensions of body self-esteem showed a straight climb trend; high, medium and low exercise volumes and 5 dimensions of body self-esteem showed a positive correlation relationship. Key words: sports psychology;physical exercise;female normal university student;body self-esteem level |