Relationship between physical activity and college students’ life satisfaction: the chain mediating effect of psychological resilience and negative emotions
ObjectiveAs the academic pressure, employment competition and mental health problems faced by college students are becoming more and more prominent, paying attention to and improving the quality of life and well-being of college students has become an important issue of widespread concern in all wal...
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| description | ObjectiveAs the academic pressure, employment competition and mental health problems faced by college students are becoming more and more prominent, paying attention to and improving the quality of life and well-being of college students has become an important issue of widespread concern in all walks of life. This study focuses on the correlation between physical activity and college students’ life satisfaction.MethodsA cross-sectional survey method was applied to 326 college students, using the Physical Activity Rating Scale, the Psychological Resilience Scale, the Depression-Anxiety-Stress Scale, and the Life Satisfaction Scale. For data analysis, demographic analysis of variance, correlation analysis, and chain mediating effect test were conducted sequentially.ResultsThere were significant differences in psychological resilience, negative emotions, and life satisfaction by gender, and psychological resilience by grade level; there were significant correlations between physical activity and psychological resilience, negative emotions, and life satisfaction among college students (r = 0.541, p < 0.001; r = −0.379, p < 0.001; r = 0.435, p < 0.001); and psychological resilience, negative emotions had significant mediating and chain mediating effects between physical activity and life satisfaction, where the mediating effect of psychological resilience was significantly stronger than the mediating effect of negative emotions and the chain mediating effect of both.ConclusionThere was a correlation between physical activity and life satisfaction among college students, and this relationship was partially mediated by psychological resilience and negative emotions. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3011f65b95a945e8835d10e18222bed62025-01-14T06:10:34ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782025-01-011510.3389/fpsyg.2024.15022221502222Relationship between physical activity and college students’ life satisfaction: the chain mediating effect of psychological resilience and negative emotionsChenxin Huang0Jinfu Wang1Zixuan Chang2Jianjuan Tang3School of Physical Education, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, ChinaSchool of Physical Education, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, ChinaSchool of Physical Education and Sports, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, ChinaSchool of Physical Education, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, ChinaObjectiveAs the academic pressure, employment competition and mental health problems faced by college students are becoming more and more prominent, paying attention to and improving the quality of life and well-being of college students has become an important issue of widespread concern in all walks of life. This study focuses on the correlation between physical activity and college students’ life satisfaction.MethodsA cross-sectional survey method was applied to 326 college students, using the Physical Activity Rating Scale, the Psychological Resilience Scale, the Depression-Anxiety-Stress Scale, and the Life Satisfaction Scale. For data analysis, demographic analysis of variance, correlation analysis, and chain mediating effect test were conducted sequentially.ResultsThere were significant differences in psychological resilience, negative emotions, and life satisfaction by gender, and psychological resilience by grade level; there were significant correlations between physical activity and psychological resilience, negative emotions, and life satisfaction among college students (r = 0.541, p < 0.001; r = −0.379, p < 0.001; r = 0.435, p < 0.001); and psychological resilience, negative emotions had significant mediating and chain mediating effects between physical activity and life satisfaction, where the mediating effect of psychological resilience was significantly stronger than the mediating effect of negative emotions and the chain mediating effect of both.ConclusionThere was a correlation between physical activity and life satisfaction among college students, and this relationship was partially mediated by psychological resilience and negative emotions.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1502222/fullcollege studentsphysical activitypsychological resiliencenegative emotionslife satisfaction |
| spellingShingle | Chenxin Huang Jinfu Wang Zixuan Chang Jianjuan Tang Relationship between physical activity and college students’ life satisfaction: the chain mediating effect of psychological resilience and negative emotions Frontiers in Psychology college students physical activity psychological resilience negative emotions life satisfaction |
| title | Relationship between physical activity and college students’ life satisfaction: the chain mediating effect of psychological resilience and negative emotions |
| title_full | Relationship between physical activity and college students’ life satisfaction: the chain mediating effect of psychological resilience and negative emotions |
| title_fullStr | Relationship between physical activity and college students’ life satisfaction: the chain mediating effect of psychological resilience and negative emotions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Relationship between physical activity and college students’ life satisfaction: the chain mediating effect of psychological resilience and negative emotions |
| title_short | Relationship between physical activity and college students’ life satisfaction: the chain mediating effect of psychological resilience and negative emotions |
| title_sort | relationship between physical activity and college students life satisfaction the chain mediating effect of psychological resilience and negative emotions |
| topic | college students physical activity psychological resilience negative emotions life satisfaction |
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