The Impact of Exercise Emotion (Emotional State) of Parents of Children with Developmental Delays on Exercise Persistence in Private Special Physical Education Institutions.: Focusing on General Characteristics

Key Points

• The research aims to investigate how the emotional states of mothers of children with developmental delays affect exercise persistence and to provide foundational data for strategies based on maternal emotions.
• Randomly sampled 207 mothers from six private special education institutions.
• Excluded 27 incomplete responses, resulting in 180 usable questionnaires with an 87.0% response rate.
• Conducted surveys with institutional approval, analyzing general characteristics using frequency analysis.
• Utilized exploratory factor analysis, correlation analysis, and multiple regression analysis using SPSS 26.0, setting significance at α = .05.
• Positive emotions related to parenting experience in mothers aged 40-50 had a positive impact on exercise persistence.
• Common forms of commitment in single and remarried parents transcended family structure differences.
• Professional and skilled workers showed motivations for child development that offset occupational resources differences.
• Fun and pride emerged as selective predictors of exercise persistence in special physical education contexts.