ArticleBMC psychiatry2025
Effects of physical activity on sleep quality among university students: chain mediation between rumination and depression levels.
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- Exercise interventions to improve sleep quality in university students: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
- Investigating the impact of physical activity on BMI, motor skills, and sleep patterns in elementary school children.Frontiers in public health · 2025Trial
- Sleep Quality and Associated Lifestyle Factors Among Medical Students Before and After the COVID-19 Era-A Comparative Study from Romania.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Article
- Longitudinal relationships among physical activity, internet gaming disorder, and insomnia: a cross-lagged panel analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Physical activity and depressive symptoms among college students: positive mental health as a mediator.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
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- Associations between physical activity and sleep quality among college students: the chain-mediating roles of rumination and emotion regulation strategies.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Targeted exercise interventions on stress, anxiety, depression, and sleep disorders in PhD students.World journal of psychiatry · 2025Article
- The mediating role of rumination and psychological resilience between physical activity and sleep quality among college students.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Association between physical activity and sleep disorders in Peruvian schoolchildren: A cross-sectional study.Sleep medicine: X · 2025Article
- Association Between Physical Activity Levels and Chronic Disease Risk Among Korean Adults with Sleep Deficiency.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Effects of physical activity and body mass index on sleep quality and depression among Turkish adults.BMC public health · 2025Article
- How electronic health literacy influences physical activity behaviour among university students: A moderated mediation model.PloS one · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundColleges and universities are currently facing the major public health issue of poor sleep quality. Sleep quality must be taken seriously to maintain the students' emotional and physical well-being. Thus, this study sought to determine how university students' levels of physical activity related to the quality of their sleep, as well as to explore the mechanisms via which physical activity affects sleep and provide suggestions for improving it.
methodsA total of 883 university students from Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, China participated in the study. Their physical activity, sleep quality, ruminative thinking levels, and depression were assessed using various questionnaires.
resultsThrough the mediating effects of rumination and depression as well as the chain-mediated effects of these two factors, physical exercise changed the quality of sleep.
conclusionUniversity students' sleep quality can be improved by increasing their physical activity and decreasing ruminative thinking and depression levels.
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