Résumé
Objective@#Exploring the relation between lifestyle, negative emotions and obesity of female college students,and to provide references for controlling obesity improving life style and promoting physical and mental health.@*Methods@#A random sample survey of 2 044 female college students in Henan Province was conducted using height and weight tester, body composition analyzer, the Depression-Anxiety-Stress Scale and College Students’ Healthy Lifestyle Scale. SPSS 17.0 and AMOS 20.0 were used for statistical analysis.@*Results@#The detection rates of recessive obesity, overweight and dominant obesity among female college students were 28.6%, 6.5% and 4.2% respectively. Exercise behavior, dietary nutrition behavior and stress management behavior of female college students’ lifestyle could predict the degree of obesity positively, and negative emotions could predict the degree of obesity positively( r =-0.23, -0.22, -0.21, 0.26, P <0.01). The proportion of negative emotions explained in the associations between exercise, dietary behavior and stress management with obesity was 22.1%, 25.9% and 42.5%, respectively, between the negative emotions of exercise behavior and obesity, dietary nutrition behavior and obesity, stress management behavior and obesity.@*Conclusion@#Negative emotions played an intermediary role between exercise behavior and obesity, dietary nutrition behavior and obesity, stress management behavior and obesity.