운동갈망 프로파일 연구

Abstract

As exercise craving needs to be examined in a systematic way, this research aims at investigating the profile of exercise craving, analyzing the characteristics of exercise participants' exercise craving, and offers the basic data for follow-up study. Participants were the adults of 19 years old or older at a preparation stage, an action stage and a maintenance stage with the stages of exercise behavior as the standard. Total of 975 male and female participants was used for analysis. Results are as follows. First, it has been found out that there were differences in exercise craving depending on the characteristics of the exercise participants. Second, there were differences in exercise craving according to the stages of exercise behavior, and the stages of exercise behavior have been found to affect exercise craving. Third, it has been concluded that basic psychological needs and exercise craving are correlated and that autonomy, competence and relatedness have influence on exercise craving. Fourth, participation motivation has been found to have correlation with exercise craving and intrinsic and external motivation to affect exercise craving. Fifth, it has been shown that exercise emotion is correlated to exercise craving and that positive emotions exert an effect on exercise craving.