AUTHOR=Ma Qi-Shuai , Yao Shu-Jun , Jia Hua-Rui 

TITLE=The effect of exercise intention on exercise behavior in the post-epidemic era: The moderator role of openness personality and the mediated role of exercise-induced feeling

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 13 - 2022

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1050918

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1050918

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=Objective: The public health emergency of COVID-19 has greatly influenced the behavior of junior high school students. Students stay at home, the course is changed to "online" teaching, especially physical education has become "online" course, which can not meet the needs of junior high school students exercise, but also greatly affect the physical and mental health of junior high school students. With the advent of the post-epidemic era, schools have organized students to return to school on a large scale, face-to-face classes have gradually returned to the right track, and physical education has returned to the playground. However, the loss of physical and mental health of junior high school students during the epidemic is difficult to recover. Therefore, how to improve the exercise behavior of junior high school students in the post-epidemic era has become a hot topic in exercise psychology. Based on the theory of planned behavior, this study introduced personality traits and exercise-induced feelings and other third variables, aiming to explore the mechanism of personality traits and exercise-induced feelings between exercise intention and exercise behavior, and explore the internal mechanism of promoting exercise behavior of junior high school students. 
Methods: This research adopts the Exercise Intention Questionnaire, Simple Big Five Personality Scale, Exercise-induced Feeling Inventory and Exercise Rating Scale, from the three cities of Anhui province 1166 junior high school students selected from the group psychological measurement, and uses the SPSS23.0 and Process plug-in exercise intention in exercise behavior analysis of the direct and indirect effect.
Results: The results showed that: (1) Exercise intention significantly positively predicted exercise behavior (β =0.265, t =4.261, p< 0.01). (2) The moderating effect of openness personality between exercise intention and exercise behavior was significant (β =0.093, t =4.431, p < 0.01). (3) Exercise-induced feelings has a significant mediating effect on the relationship between exercise intention and exercise behavior regulated by openness personality
Conclusion: Exercise intention can effectively predict exercise behavior, and the prediction level is affected by openness personality, and the moderating effect of openness personality is partially realized through the mediating variable of exercise-induced feelings.