Cognitive flexibility and social adjustment in daily life among children: The role of perceived social support

Chen, Dan; Wen, Xue; Zhou, Yuyang; Zhang, Qian; Xu, Wei

doi:10.1007/s12144-024-05613-5

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“…Third, the intrinsic mechanisms and extrinsic conditions that influence college students' perceptions of social support are not limited to physical activity and social-emotional competence. For example, several studies have demonstrated the influence of other variables on perceived social support, such as interpersonal relationships, positive emotions, basic psychological needs, and so forth (Barnett et al, 2020;Chen et al, 2024;Lu et al, 2023). Future research could explore the effects of other variables on college students' perceptions of social support.…”

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The relationship between physical activity and college students' perceived social support: The mediating role of social–emotional competence and its gender differences

Shu,

Chen,

Zhong

et al. 2024

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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The aim of this research was to examine the correlation among college students' physical activity, social–emotional abilities, gender and their perception of social support. The survey was conducted among 408 college students from Jiangsu, Shandong and Hubei provinces utilising the Perceived Social Support Scale, the Social–Emotional Competence Scale for Chinese College Students and the Physical Activity Scale (PARS‐3). SPSS 27.0 and the Process 4.1 plug‐in developed by Hayes were used to perform common method bias tests, independent samples t‐tests, descriptive statistics, correlation analyses, and moderated mediation model tests on the data. (1) After controlling for variables such as educational attainment and professional background, physical activity was found to exert a significant and favourable influence on college students' perception of social support (β = .11, p<.001). (2) The relationship between physical activity and college students' perception of social support was moderated by their social–emotional skills. The mediation effect size was calculated to be 54.33%. (3) Gender moderates the relationship between physical activity and college students' perceptions of social support (β = .09, t = 2.01, p<.05). Physical activity not only directly affects college students' perceived social support, but also indirectly through social–emotional competence; gender has a significant moderating effect on the direct effect of physical activity on college students' perceived social support. Specifically, female students had a more significant positive predictive effect on perceptual social support than male students. Please refer to the Supplementary Material section to find this article's .

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confidence: 99%