ArticleFrontiers in public health2025
Physical activity and happiness of college students: chain mediating role of exercise attitude and sleep quality.
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- Effects of exercise interventions on sleep quality in adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
- Adolescent Sports Learning Interest and Subjective Well-Being: The Chain Mediating Role of Social Anxiety and Sleep Quality.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Integrating physical, emotional, and social changes to examine their associations with self-efficacy among college students engaging in physical activity.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Exercise Enjoyment and Exercise Addiction Risk Among Turkish Adults: Associations and Subgroup Differences in a Cross-Sectional Survey.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- A variable- and person-centered study of physical exercise volume and psychological flourishing among Chinese college students: serial indirect associations of self-compassion and body appreciation and latent profile analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- To explore the relationship between physical activity and sleep quality of college students based on the mediating effect of stress and subjective well-being.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Analysis of the mechanism of physical activity enhancing well-being among college students using artificial neural network.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Influence of physical activity on perceived stress and mental health in university students: a systematic review.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Review
- Analysis of the exercise intention-behavior gap among college students using explainable machine learning.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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Abstract
Introduction: This study explores the role of physical activity, exercise attitude, and sleep quality in college students' happiness, aiming to provide a theoretical basis for improving college students' mental health. Methods: The study employed a whole group sampling method, utilizing a physical activity level scale, exercise attitude scale, sleep quality scale, and happiness scale. A questionnaire survey was conducted with 1,308 college students from four universities in China. Results: The analysis yielded three key findings: (1) Physical activity significantly improves college students' happiness, and this improvement can be achieved through direct and indirect effects. (2) Positive exercise attitude plays an important mediating role between physical activity and happiness, and a high level of exercise attitude can enhance happiness. In addition, the effect of physical activity on happiness is most significant through exercise attitude. (3) Although sleep quality did not significantly mediate the relationship between physical activity and happiness alone, it played a positive role in the chain mediation path of "physical activity → exercise attitude → sleep quality → happiness." Discussion: The discovery of the chain mediation path shows that physical activity not only affects happiness, but also indirectly affects college students' happiness through the combined effects of psychological and physiological factors.
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