College of Physical Education, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China.
School of Physical Education and Health, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, China.
Front Public Health. 2022 Aug 1;10:960870. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.960870. eCollection 2022.
Participation in mass sports is one of the most efficient strategies for people to attain physical and mental health in China. Prosocial behavior has a positive effect on social development. This study developed a conceptual model with mass sports activity as the independent variable, prosocial behavior as the dependent variable, and flow trait and subjective wellbeing as the mediating variables.
Participants ( = 351) completed an online survey. Mass sports activity, flow trait, subjective wellbeing, and prosocial behavior were measured using the physical activity rank scale-3 (PARS-3), short dispositional flow scale (SDFS), index of wellbeing (IWB), and prosocial tendencies measure (PTM), respectively. Descriptive statistics compared differences between sports population (PARS-3, ≥ 36) and non-sports population (PARS-3, <36). Mediation effect was analyzed using the PROCESS (Template, Model 6).
Sports population scored significantly higher (all ≤ 0.05) on SDFS, IWB, and PTM than non-sports population. Participation in mass sports stimulated flow trait and thus improved prosocial behavior, with a mediation effect value of 0.061 (95% , 0.028-0.104), which accounted for 30.18% of the total effect. Participation in mass sports enhanced subjective wellbeing and thus improved prosocial behavior, with a mediation effect value of 0.044 (95% , 0.007-0.090), which accounted for 21.96% of the total effect. Flow trait and subjective wellbeing mediated the relationship between mass sports activity and prosocial behavior in a sequential manner, with a mediation effect value of 0.059 (95% , 0.035-0.090), which accounted for 29.23% of the total effect.
The preliminary results of the mediation model validated the hypothesized sequential links between mass sports activity, flow trait, subjective wellbeing, and prosocial behavior. Greater participation in mass sports increases the likelihood of prosocial behavior.
参与群众体育活动是中国人获得身心健康的最有效策略之一。亲社会行为对社会发展具有积极影响。本研究构建了一个概念模型，将群众体育活动作为自变量，亲社会行为作为因变量，流畅特质和主观幸福感作为中介变量。
参与者（n=351）完成了在线调查。使用身体活动等级量表-3（PARS-3）、短程 dispositional 流畅量表（SDFS）、幸福感指数（IWB）和亲社会倾向量表（PTM）分别测量群众体育活动、流畅特质、主观幸福感和亲社会倾向。采用描述性统计方法比较了运动人群（PARS-3，≥36）和非运动人群（PARS-3，<36）之间的差异。采用 PROCESS（模板，模型 6）分析中介效应。
运动人群在 SDFS、IWB 和 PTM 上的得分显著高于非运动人群（均 P≤0.05）。参与群众体育活动激发了流畅特质，从而提高了亲社会行为，中介效应值为 0.061（95%置信区间，0.028-0.104），占总效应的 30.18%。参与群众体育活动增强了主观幸福感，从而提高了亲社会行为，中介效应值为 0.044（95%置信区间，0.007-0.090），占总效应的 21.96%。流畅特质和主观幸福感依次中介了群众体育活动与亲社会行为之间的关系，中介效应值为 0.059（95%置信区间，0.035-0.090），占总效应的 29.23%。
中介模型的初步结果验证了群众体育活动、流畅特质、主观幸福感和亲社会行为之间假设的顺序关系。更多地参与群众体育活动增加了亲社会行为的可能性。
