Objective: The purpose of this study is to carry out in-depth analysis and research on the psychological participation behaviors of exercise dependent people
in the fitness group, enrich the psychological causes of exercise dependence, in order to arouse the attention of the society to the exercise dependence of the mass fitness people in Macao, and put forward specific suggestions for the prevention of exercise dependence of the fitness group.
Methods: The method of random sampling was adopted for the public fitness groups in gyms in Australia. The Exercise Behavior Recording Scale (Godin and
Shephard 1985) and Exercise Motivation Scale (Wu Xiuting and Liao Zhimin 2011) were adopted. ", "Social Body Type Anxiety Scale (Lu Junhong, Huang Yingjing 1999)", "Exercise Dependence Scale (Chen Longhong, Lu Junhong Guan, CAI Yimei 2005" and "Chinese Urban Residents Subjective Well-being Scale (Lu Luo 1998)". Differential analysis and regression analysis were used to explore the relationship among social body anxiety, subjective well-being, exercise motivation and exercise dependence.
Results: A total of 295 samples were included in this study. The regression results showed that social body anxiety could significantly negatively predict
subjective well-being, and the higher the score of social body anxiety, the lower the score of happiness (beta=0.124, P=0.043). Social body type anxiety could
significantly positively predict motion dependence score (beta=0.453, P<0.001), and motion participation motivation could significantly positively predict happiness (beta=0.658, P<0.001).
Conclusions: (1) The social body anxiety of the mass gym-goers in the gyms in Australia has a significant negative impact on the group subjective well-being. (2) The social body anxiety of the mass fitness group in the gyms in Australia has a significant positive impact on the group exercise dependence. (3) Exercise motivation has a significant positive impact on group subjective well-being. (4) Exercise motivation and exercise dependence had no significant chain mediating effect between social body anxiety and subjective well-being.