ArticleBMC public health2025
The effect of exercise motivation on adolescents' subjective Well-being: chain mediation of physical activity and Social-emotional competency.
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- Digital Parent-Child Intervention on Children's Exercise Behavior and Psychological Development-A Randomized Controlled Trial Based on Family Perspective.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- The relationship between physical activity and academic burnout among Yi primary school students in Southwest China: a moderated chain-mediation model.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The relationship between sport motivation and problematic social networking sites use among adolescents: a study integrating mediation modeling and network analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Physical activity motivation is inversely associated with anxiety: a cross-sectional serial mediation analysis involving smartphone addiction symptoms and sleep quality in medical undergraduates.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Collective resonance: social relationships outperform confidence in explaining exercise-induced happiness in a collectivist society.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- From the court to the heart: basketball intervention is associated with adolescents' subjective well-being-a serial mediation analysis of executive function and psychological capital.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Face-gain appraisal and event-based social comparison in the association between novelty motivation and sustained positive sport experience in highland paragliding among urban professional women in China.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- A chain mediation model for physical exercise and sleep quality.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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Abstract
objectiveBased on the Self-Determination Theory, this study examined the influences on adolescents' subjective well-being and revealed the chain mediating role of physical activity and socio-emotional competence between exercise motivation and subjective well-being.
methodsMotives for Physical Activity Measure (MPAM-R), Subjective Well-Being Scale for Chinese Citizen (SWBS-CC20), Physical Activity Rating Scale (PARS-3), and The Delaware Social-Emotional Competency Scale (DSECS-S) were used to conduct questionnaire surveys on 1,530 junior high school students in Handan, Hebei Province. The data were statistically analyzed by using the SPSS 23.0 and AMOS 23.0 software.
results(1) There is a positive correlation between exercise motivation and subjective well-being, and the direct prediction of subjective well-being is significant; (2) Exercise motivation can indirectly influence adolescents' subjective well-being through the partial mediation of physical activities and social-emotional competency; (3) Exercise motivation may also indirectly affects adolescents' subjective well-being through the chain mediation of "physical activities and social-emotional competency".
conclusionA higher EM may enhance adolescents' level of PA and SEC, which further contributes to their SWB, which plays an important role in enhancing adolescents' mental health and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
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