Mapping Knowledge Domain Analysis Of Research On Exercise Psychology In China

The research on exercise psychology in China has started to get on track after the State Council issued the Outline of the Nationwide Body-building Plan in 1995.Over the past 20 years,our country has made some breakthrough and achievements in the research of exercise psychology.However,comparing with foreign countries,the certain gap is still existed because of its late start in China.By using advanced modern analysis software and analyzing the development of Chinese exercise psychology from a macroscopic perspective,it is helpful to reveal the whole picture of this subject and promote the development of exercise psychology in China.In this paper,we adopt documentation,logic analysis and CiteSpace software visualization analysis to analyze the literatures published on the Chinese core journals,to draw the Mapping Knowledge Domain and to study the circulation,authors,institutions,hot topics and the leading edge of research on exercise psychology in China.And we can draw the following conclusions:In China,the volume of research on Exercise Psychology keeps a generally upward developing trend in the twists and turns,which can be divided into three stages: the discipline embryonic stage,the slow growth stage and the rapid development stage.In China,the research contributions in this field are concentrated in a small number of well-known scholars,while on the whole,the number of research finding is still less and the research remaining immature.Moreover,the research institutions mainly concentrated in universities,and the core institution consists of Wuhan Institute of Physical Education,East China Normal University Department of Physical Education,Beijing Sport University and Shanghai University of Sport,which made remarkable contribution to Chinese Exercise Psychology.The research content of domestic Exercise Psychology can be divided into 4 parts: the basic research of exercise psychology,the study of exercisebehavior theory,the psychological effect of participating in exercise and the empirical research on the specific exercise prescription.The hot research topics in this field are mainly concentrated on the application and evaluation of exercise behavior theory,the construction of scale model,the empirical study on the relationship between physical exercise and psychological effects,and the review of exercise psychology's research status and development.The research frontier of domestic exercise psychology is to improve the theoretical system,to sort out the similarities and differences with sports psychology,and to test and improve the applied theories and methods.In the future development,our country's exercise psychology will pay more attention to explore more research methods and try to establish more theories and models.