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This study seeks to understand the relationship between exercise motivation and social skills, and between exercise motivation and feelings of loneliness after adolescence. Furthermore, the knowledge acquired here is hoped to be of help to health and exercise educators. There were 1989 survey candidates (878 males, 1111 females). The survey items consisted of a “physical exercise motivation scale”, a “social skill scale” and a “feelings of loneliness scale”. The physical exercise motivation scale consisted of six sub-scales. The analysis showed the following features: A) Subjects who evaluated themselves as doing a lot of physical exercise had high physical exercise motivation, high social skills and lower feelings of loneliness. B) “Feeling of physical exercise competence”, “competition desire”, “social skills” and “feelings of loneliness” was higher in male subjects than in female. C) “Affiliate drive”, “competition desire” and “physical exercise anxiety” is higher in adolescence (13 to 19 years old) and “feeling of physical exercise value”, “social skills” and “feelings of loneliness”, higher in adult middle (46 to 60 years old) and older adult (61 or more years old). D) Social skills and feelings of loneliness are related to a “feeling of physical exercise competence”, an “affiliate drive”, a “physical exercise anxiety” and a “feeling of physical exercise value”. From these results, the importance of physical exercise and sports instruction in improving quality of life was considered.
