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Intervention Effects of Motivation Interviewing Chinese Modified on the Mental Health of College Students with Exercise Dependence

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Exercise dependence is a psychological problem that cannot be ignored and is positively related to anxiety and depression of college students. However, only a few effective intervention methods are available to deal with exercise dependence. This study aims to investigate the intervention effects of motivation interviewing Chinese modified on the mental health of college students with exercise dependence. Thirty college students with exercise dependence were selected from Hunan University of Science and Technology in Hunan province of China to participate in the experiment. The participants were divided equally into the intervention and control groups. A three-week motivation interviewing Chinese modified session was conducted in the intervention group, whereas no intervention was carried out in the control group. This strategy allowed for the vertical and the horizontal comparison of the intervention objects’ situation before and after the experiment. The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and other Scales were used to evaluate the effects of the intervention and explore the intervention effects of motivation interviewing Chinese modified on the mental health of college students with exercise dependence. After three weeks of motivation interviewing Chinese modified, differences in state anxiety, depression, self-satisfaction, negative emotion, energy, and positive emotion in the intervention and control groups before and after the intervention appear to be statistically significant (P < 0.05). Motivation interviewing Chinese modified can improve the mental health level of college students with exercise dependence. Hence, motivation interviewing Chinese modified is good for the treatment of addiction behaviors and provides a reliable intervention method for exercise dependence.

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The author thanks all the team members for their committed participation in this study. This study was supported by Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (2017JJ2054) provided by Menglong Li.

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  1. Physical Education Institute, Hunan First Normal University, NO.1015, The Third Fenglin Road, Changsha, 410205, China

    Menglong Li & Yujia Ren

  2. Hunan Provincial Research Institute of Education, Changsha, 410005, China

    Menglong Li

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Li, M., Ren, Y. Intervention Effects of Motivation Interviewing Chinese Modified on the Mental Health of College Students with Exercise Dependence. Psychiatr Q 90, 447–459 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11126-019-09635-2

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