Xu, S., Li, J., Fan, W., & Zhang, J. (2018). Effect of Acceptance & Commitment Therapy on the mental health of the PE university students. Sport Science Research, 3, 92-98+104.
Objective: The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of routine teaching and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy（ACT） intervention on the emotional health and mindfulness traits of the PE university students. And the teaching results of those two methods are compared in order to find the difference.
Method: Subjects（N=219） from the PE universities were randomly divided into the routine teaching group（N=119） and the ACT intervention group（N=100）. The two teaching methods were applied to the groups accordingly. The subjects were asked to do the five questionnaires of Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, Self-Rating Anxiety Scale, Acceptance and Action Questionnaire and Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire at the time of pre-experiment and post-experiment.
Result: Routine teaching can reduce anxiety level and reduce experiential avoidance level significantly. ACT intervention can evidently reduce depression and anxiety level,reduce experiential avoidance level and improve mindfulness traits significantly. Compared with routine teaching, ACT intervention is more effective in decreasing depression and anxiety.
Conclusion:ACT intervention can be an alternative teaching method for psychological health education course.