The promotion of
leisure-time physical activity has emerged as an important initiative for
public health due to its importance in enhancing life quality of modern
mankind. Exercise psychology concerns about the understanding of exercise behavior
and related psychological function in physical activity. The course covers
three essential perspectives with the first part to focus on the basic concept of
exercise psychology, scope, historical past and importance to human’s growth.
The second perspective covers topics on exercise and its relationship to mental
health and life quality development. The last perspective relates to research
works in exercise psychology, theories in behavioral science and intervention strategies
to increase exertion in leisure-time physical activity. Teachers from physical education,
health educators and youth workers will find the course useful as it covers the
theoretical aspects of exercise behavior, academic discourse on motivation,
self-efficacy and personal development and its relationship to the development
of exercise behavior. The development of sport-based knowledge and
psychological understanding of the exercise behavior are the core content in
learning. At the end of the program, participants are expected to have the enhanced
knowledge to conduct research works with topics in areas of sport behavior
development, motivation, personality and habit in exercise and sociological links
to exercises behavior development.
- Teacher: walterho, Ho King Yan Walter