Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2017)

Social Support and Leisure Exercise of Female College Students A Mediating Effect of Gender-role Conflict

Authors
Baolin Dong, Huan Zhang
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Baolin Dong
Available Online June 2017.
DOI
10.2991/iccessh-17.2017.259How to use a DOI?
Keywords
female students; social support; gender-role conflict; leisure exercise
Abstract

Investigate the influence of social support on leisure exercise of female college students as well as the mediating effect of gender-role conflict. Through using the Social Support Scale for University Students (SSS-US), Sage's Role Conflict Inventory (RCI) and the Physical Activity Rating Scale (PARS-3), this paper makes investigation on 560 female college students. Results indicated that female students could feel a higher social support and a lower gender-role conflict, but their leisure exercise is not ideal. Female social support and leisure exercise are different on the level of gender role conflict. Social support and gender-role conflict are the important antecedent variables of female students' leisure exercise, and they significantly affect female leisure exercise. Gender-role conflict has a partial mediating effect in social support explaining female leisure exercise, and the mediating effect was 23.10% of the total effect. Conclusions: Giving more social support and recognition as well as through changing the traditional gender concept to ease the gender-role conflict might be a crucial link that cultivating the habit of physical exercise and promoting the autonomy of leisure exercise.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2017)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
June 2017
ISBN
10.2991/iccessh-17.2017.259
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/iccessh-17.2017.259How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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