摘要

Introduction: In college, students have to face not only the changes of their own physical development, but also external pressures from environmental adaptation, interpersonal communication, academic achievement, economic hardship, emotional predicament and employment difficulties. In addition, the physical and mental development of college students is not yet mature. Their self-regulation ability is relatively weak, and the resulting psychological problems become more and more obvious. It has long been proven that physical exercise can promote individual physical and mental health, but the specific relationship between the two needs further research. @@@ Subjects and methods: The paper adopts the random sampling method. 300 subjects were randomly divided into six groups with different exercise programs. Those subjects were tested via PSTR for eight times within two months. Using SPSS27.0 as statistical analysis tool, the effect of physical exercise on stress relief of college students was analyzed from two aspects of daily exercise time and continuous exercise days. @@@ Results: Before and after the experiment, the pressure level of group one to group five decreased significantly. The pressure level of group four decreased the most (t = 51.595, P < 0.001). Group three came second (t = 30.569, P < 0.001). And the pressure level of group one decreased relatively lower (t = 14.861, P < 0.001). @@@ Conclusions: Physical exercise has a positive effect on stress relief of college students. Daily exercise time should be suitable in length, and it should be 30 min to 45 min.