![]() The mental health issue among university students has been growing public health implications with the high rates of depression, anxiety, and stress among university students. Physical Exercise, Leisure, Positive Emotion, Stress Coping, and Well-Being In particular, this research appears to be meaningful in suggesting that regular leisure-time physical exercise can lead to an effective problem-focused coping through elicitation of positive emotion. This research may shed a light in illuminating potential mechanism of how regular physical exercise is conducive to enhanced health behavior as well as effective stress coping in university students in the context of leisure. These reduced themes were finally boiled down to 6 integrated themes: positive emotion, unity of mind and body, heightened self-esteem, leisure, problem-focused coping, and self-regulation of health behavior. These themes were reduced to 8 comprehensive constituent themes: self-efficacy, positive emotion, mind and body, health-behaviors, self-esteem, leisure, problem-focused coping, and positive expectancy. Meaningful units of themes were induced with 24 initially drawn themes. The interview on the basis of phenomenological research examined what the participants experienced with leisure time physical exercise in conjunction with stress coping and mental health. ![]() Nine university students (N = 9) in a large mid-west university took part in a face- to face, semi-structured interviews using ten open-ended questions with respect to benefits of lei- sure time physical exercise. A qualitative research, based on interview to draw findings in an inductive way, was conducted. This study aims at investigating the in-depth information regarding impacts of physical exercise on psychological well-being in university students with an emphasis on coping with stress in the context of leisure. ![]() Received 23 August 2014 revised 10 October 2014 accepted 26 October 2014 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). Department of Health Education and Recreation, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USAĮmail: * © 2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. ![]()
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