The purpose of the study was to understand how physical self-concept of middle school students in school sports clubs is related to the students’ psychological happiness.
In order to achieve the research goal, the study selected students living in City Y in 2013 and five middle schools located in Area A as subjects of the study 100 students from each of the five schools were gathered as subjects of the research which added up a total of 500 students in the end. With 73 unfaithful copies of a survey excluded, the study statistically processed 427 copies of the survey in consideration of the purpose of the research.
The findings from the survey are summarized as follows.
First, for the difference of the physical self-concept by gender, a significant difference (p<.05) was discovered from the self-respect concept. Among sub-factors of the physical self-concept by grade, muscular strength/endurance factor and general physical factors presented statistically significant differences (p<.01 p<.05).
Second, the psychological happiness by gender did not come up with significant differences with any of the factor (p>.05) while the psychological happiness by grade demonstrated a significant difference with the happiness factor (p<.05).
Third, according to the result of an investigation on how the physical self-concept affects the psychological happiness, the physical self-concept was observed to have positive influences (p<.001) both on the happiness factor and satisfaction factor.