Sun Dezhuo, Zhu Xiangfei, Bao Zhonghan
Faculty of Education, Silpakorn University, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand.
Faculty of Physical Education, Putian University, Putian, China.
Front Psychol. 2024 Jun 21;15:1296154. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1296154. eCollection 2024.
Physical activity has been shown to be effective in treating and improving anxiety in college students. However, no studies have been conducted to examine the relationship between physical activity and anxiety in college students through mediating factors such as dietary nutrition and lifestyle habits. Therefore, the aim of this study was to examine the mediating role of lifestyle and dietary nutrition in the relationship between physical activity and anxiety.
This study used a stratified random sampling method to survey 498 college students from three universities in Fujian, China. Data on participants' demographic characteristics, physical activity, lifestyle habits, and dietary nutrition were collected and analyzed using SPSS software. The proposed structural equation model was analyzed using Amos software.
The results of the study showed that dietary nutrition and lifestyle habits had significant independent mediating effects and continuous multiple mediating effects ( < 0.01) in the effects of physical activity on college students' anxiety. Dietary nutrition and lifestyle habits played an independent mediating role, accounting for 24.9% of the total effect; there was also a continuous multiple mediating effect between dietary nutrition and lifestyle habits, accounting for 13.27% of the total effect value. In addition, physical activity had a direct effect value on anxiety in college students, accounting for 36.93% of the total effect value.
By increasing the behavior and awareness of college students to participate in physical activity, supplemented by guiding them to develop regular lifestyle habits and correct dietary nutritional patterns, the anxiety level of college students can be effectively improved and reduced. This type of regulation is an important reference for the self-management and rehabilitation of college students with anxiety disorders. Future studies can experimentally develop a combined intervention of physical activity, lifestyle habits, and dietary nutritional to help college students better cope with anxiety.
体育活动已被证明对治疗和改善大学生焦虑有效。然而，尚未有研究通过饮食营养和生活方式习惯等中介因素来考察体育活动与大学生焦虑之间的关系。因此，本研究旨在探讨生活方式和饮食营养在体育活动与焦虑关系中的中介作用。
本研究采用分层随机抽样方法，对来自中国福建三所大学的498名大学生进行调查。收集了参与者的人口统计学特征、体育活动、生活方式习惯和饮食营养数据，并使用SPSS软件进行分析。使用Amos软件对提出的结构方程模型进行分析。
研究结果表明，饮食营养和生活方式习惯在体育活动对大学生焦虑的影响中具有显著的独立中介效应和连续多重中介效应（<0.01）。饮食营养和生活方式习惯发挥了独立中介作用，占总效应的24.9%；饮食营养和生活方式习惯之间也存在连续多重中介效应，占总效应值的13.27%。此外，体育活动对大学生焦虑有直接效应值，占总效应值的36.93%。
通过增加大学生参与体育活动的行为和意识，并辅以引导他们养成规律的生活方式习惯和正确的饮食营养模式，可以有效提高和降低大学生的焦虑水平。这种调节方式是焦虑症大学生自我管理和康复的重要参考。未来的研究可以通过实验开发体育活动、生活方式习惯和饮食营养的联合干预措施，以帮助大学生更好地应对焦虑。
