Correlations between leisure identity and psychological Well-being in college students who participate in general physical education

This study was conducted to investigate the correlations between leisure identity and psychological well-being among college students who participated in general physical education. To achieve this purpose, a survey was conducted with 444 college students who were participating in general physical education classes at four-year colleges; in the statistical processing of the survey results, the following conclusions were obtained by correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis. First, identification and esteem, sub-factors of leisure identity, had positive correlations with all sub-factors of psychological well-being. In addition, emotional attachment, a leisure identity sub-factor, had positive correlations with immersion, self-realization, and pleasure enjoyment, psychological well-being sub-factors. Second, identification and esteem, leisure identity sub-factors, had positive impacts on confidence and self-realization, psychological well-being sub-factors. Third, all leisure identity sub-factors had positive impacts on all psychological wellbeing sub-factors. In conclusion, because leisure identity had positive impacts on the psychological wellbeing of college students who participate in general physical education, it is judged that it is important to increase their psychological well-being by allowing them to feel identification, esteem, and emotional attachment toward general physical education.