Considering the significance of resilience in coping with adversity, how to improve college students’ resilience is worthy of attention. Previous studies have revealed that physical activity can promote resilience; however, few studies examined the mediating factors between them. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of physical activity on resilience, as well as the mediating effects of competence need, autonomy need, and relatedness need between physical activity and resilience. The study involved 2375 college students (1110 males and 1265 females), with an average age of 20.25 years (SD = 2.04). Participants completed the International Physical Activity Questionnaire Short Form, Basic Needs Satisfaction in General Scale, and Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale. Results showed that physical activity was positively associated with resilience, and the three basic needs played significant mediating roles between physical activity and resilience. The indirect effect of competence need was significantly greater than that of autonomy need and relatedness need. To conclude, physical activity plays an important role in resilience among college students, and the satisfaction of competence, autonomy, and relatedness needs mediates the relationship between physical activity and resilience, among which, competence need appears as the strongest mediator.
BackgroundRestrained eating behavior has become the norm in college students' lives, and considering the harm it causes to college students, it is necessary to explore the factors associated with it. The aim of this study was to explore the association between media internalized pressure, body esteem, social physique anxiety, and restrained eating behavior.MethodsThe participants in this study were 1,032 Chinese college students (439 males and 593 females) and had a mean age of 20.22 years (SD = 1.277). They completed the Sociocultural Attitudes Toward Appearance Questionnaire-3, Body Esteem Scale (BES), Social Physique Anxiety Scale (SPAS), and Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire (DEBQ).ResultsThe results showed that media internalized pressure was significantly and positively associated with college students' restrained eating behavior, that body esteem and social physique anxiety played a mediating role between media internalized pressure and restrained eating behavior, respectively, and that body esteem and social physique anxiety can also play a chained mediating role.ConclusionThis study reveals the relationship between media internalized pressure and restrained eating behavior, and the important role played by body esteem and social physique anxiety. Future interventions targeting restrained eating should focus on the aspects of body esteem and social physique anxiety.
Depression, anxiety and stress are common negative emotions among college students. While physical activity is an effective way to reduce the level of negative emotions. However, the mechanisms of physical activity levels affect negative emotions is unclear. Psychological resilience is a positive mental quality closely related to physical activity level and negative emotions. Therefore, it can be hypothesized that psychological resilience may be one of the important bridges between physical activity level and negative emotions. PURPOSE: To explore the mediating effect of psychological resilience on physical activity level and negative emotions in college students. METHODS: A survey of 2375 college students in Shandong province was conducted using Physical Activity Rating Scale 3 (PARS-3), Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) and The Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21). SPSS24.0 statistical software was used for descriptive statistics, one-way variance test and Person correlation analysis, AMOS24.0 software was used for structural modeling, and Bootstrap method was used for testing the mediating effect. P <0.05 was considered statistically significant. RESULTS: More than 70% of college students are at a low level of physical activity. There were significant differences in psychological resilience and negative emotions among college students with different physical activity levels (P < 0.001). The physical activity level of college students was significantly correlated with psychological resilience, significantly negatively correlated with depression, anxiety, stress and overall negative emotion (P < 0.01). The results of the structural equation model showed that physical activity level can directly affect negative emotions (direct effect = -0.045, 95%CI:-0.085, -0.004) and indirectly affect negative emotions through psychological resilience (indirect effect = -0.067, 95%CI:-0.084, -0.052). The mediating effect of psychological resilience accounts for 59.82% of the total effect. CONCLUSIONS: The level of physical activity can not only directly affect the negative emotions of college students, but also reduce their negative emotions by enhancing their psychological resilience.
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