@Article{ijmhp.2023.030671,
AUTHOR = {Jialing Miao, Wei Liao, Baoguo Xie},
TITLE = {Who Benefits More from Physical Exercise? On  the Relations between Personality, Physical  Exercise, and Well-Being},
JOURNAL = {International Journal of Mental Health Promotion},
VOLUME = {25},
YEAR = {2023},
NUMBER = {10},
PAGES = {1147--1157},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/IJMHP/v25n10/54442},
ISSN = {2049-8543},
ABSTRACT = {Although employers believe that encouraging and supporting physical exercise activities by purchasing fitness equipment and building 
sports venues can improve employees’ well-being, the utilization rate is rather low. Since most of the evidence of the well-being promotion 
in the workplace concentrated on the perspectives of organizational factors and psychosocial factors and focused on the reduction of the 
negative affect of well-being, it is still an open question whether physical exercise has benefits on both negative and positive affect of wellbeing and who benefits more from physical exercise. Thus, the purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of physical exercise on 
occupational well-being (job burnout and work engagement) and examine whether effectiveness depends on personality traits. Online 
questionnaires were distributed. The sample included 671 participants from different enterprises in China. Results showed that the 
effectiveness of physical exercise was also applicable to well-being in the workplace. Physical exercise was negatively correlated with job 
burnout and positively correlated with work engagement. The effectiveness was different among employees with different personality 
traits. Contrary to our expectation, individuals with neuroticism were more likely to improve their work engagement through physical 
exercise. Extroversion and conscientiousness weakened the benefits of physical exercise. Therefore, differences of effectiveness among 
different personality traits emphasize the need for a more personalized strategy in physical exercise interventions.},
DOI = {10.32604/ijmhp.2023.030671}
}