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With the improvement of people’s awareness that sports can promote and improve mental health, more and more scholars have gradually enriched their research on specific sports. At present, sports dance has become an important part of the sports and cultural life among teachers and students in universities in China, with frequent interschool competitions and exchanges have taking place. Among them, there are many research studies on the physiological and psychological influences, which play a positive role in promoting and guiding the development of sports dance in China.
Hung et al. (2024) pointed out that sports dance can meet people’s psychological needs, improve the content of national fitness activities, promote physical and mental health, and enrich cultural life. Romeo et al. (2024) proposed that sports dance can effectively regulate the central nervous system of the human body and play a good role in preventing various neurological diseases. Jung et al. (2024) concluded that sports dance can effectively improve the physical self-esteem of ordinary college students. It can effectively reduce the negative factors in their mental state, help to improve their mental state, and promote their mental health.
Jiang and Yan (2024) put forward eight standards for college students’ mental health, namely, normal intelligence, coordinated control of emotions, strong will, age-appropriate mind, harmonious interpersonal relationship, adaptation to social life, love of life, and complete and harmonious personality structure. Han and Zhang (2024) divided dance therapy objects into three categories: Children, adults, and the elderly. Dance can help the elderly rejuvenate, keep healthy, and prevent the occurrence of autism in the elderly. According to Tsuchida et al. (2024), college students’ interpersonal relationship is the psychological relationship between college students in their study, life, and work.