The purpose of this study is to verify the causal relationship between passion, satisfaction from exercise, and psychological well-being of Pilates participants. The subjects of this study were 231 participants who had been attending Pilates lesson fo...
The purpose of this study is to verify the causal relationship between passion, satisfaction from exercise, and psychological well-being of Pilates participants. The subjects of this study were 231 participants who had been attending Pilates lesson for more than a month at a Pilates center. SPSS Version 21.0 and AMOS 18.0 were used for data processing, and frequency analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, reliability analysis, and correlation analysis were performed. In addition, path analysis using structural equations was conducted to confirm the causal relationship between Pilates participants’ passion, exercise satisfaction, and psychological well-being. Bootstrapping was performed to test significance. The research conclusion is as follows. First, harmonious passion of Pilates participants was confirmed to have a positive effect on exercise satisfaction and obsessive-compulsive passion had no significant effect on exercise satisfaction. Second, in the relationship between passion and psychological well-being of Pilates participants, both passion for harmony and compulsive passion had a significant effect. Third, exercise satisfaction of Pilates participants was found to have a positive effect on psychological well-being. Fourth, as a result of analyzing the mediating effect of exercise satisfaction on the relationship between passion and psychological well-being, the indirect effect of harmonious passion on psychological well-being through exercise satisfaction was significant, while the indirect effect of obsessive-compulsive passion on psychological well-being through exercise satisfaction was found to be insignificant.