An Experimental Study on the Impact of Sports Dance Exercise on College Students’ Mental Health
Abstract
This study explores the impact of sports dance exercise on college students’ mental health through a controlled experiment. Sixty non-physical education major students from a university were selected and randomly divided into an experimental group (30 students, receiving 12 weeks of sports dance training) and a control group (30 students, maintaining their original lifestyle). The Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90) was used to measure the mental health level of the two groups before and after the experiment. The results showed that after the experiment, the total score of SCL-90 and the scores of each factor (including somatization, obsession-compulsion, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation, and psychoticism) in the experimental group were significantly lower than those in the control group (p < 0.05), and there was also a significant decrease in the experimental group when comparing its own pre-experiment and post-experiment scores (p < 0.01). The conclusion indicates that regular sports dance exercise can effectively improve college students’ mental health, alleviate various negative psychological symptoms, and is an effective means to promote college students’ mental health. It is suggested that colleges and universities should widely promote sports dance courses.
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