Xia Yunping, Luo Min, Liu Bo, Fan Yunxiang, Tang Kai, Tang Yong, Zhang Xiang
College of Physical Education, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China.
Sports Department, Hunan Business Vocational and Technical College, Changsha, China.
Front Psychol. 2025 May 22;16:1560859. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1560859. eCollection 2025.
To explore the influence of college students' exercise participation on their feelings of self-deficiency and its mechanisms, with social support as a mediating variable.
The study utilized the Physical Activity Rating Scale (PARS-3), the Feelings of Inadequacy Scale (FIS), and the Social Support Rating Scale (SSRS). A stratified random sampling method was used to select 981 college students from different provinces and universities for a questionnaire survey. Statistical methods, including confirmatory factor analysis, regression analysis, and the Bootstrap method, were employed for data analysis.
Exercise participation significantly and negatively predicted college students' feelings of self-deficiency. Social support exhibited a significant mediating effect between exercise participation and self-deficiency. Furthermore, the three dimensions of social support-subjective support, objective support, and support utilization-showed significant indirect effects. The mediation pathways were as follows: exercise participation → subjective support → self-deficiency, exercise participation → objective support → self-deficiency, and exercise participation → support utilization → self-deficiency.
Exercise participation significantly reduces feelings of self-deficiency among college students, either directly or indirectly through social support. In the future, universities can help mitigate students' self-deficiency and promote their physical and mental wellbeing by optimizing physical activity spaces and constructing social support networks from the perspectives of exercise participation and social support.
以社会支持作为中介变量，探讨大学生运动参与对其自我不足感的影响及其机制。
本研究采用体育活动评定量表（PARS - 3）、不足感量表（FIS）和社会支持评定量表（SSRS）。运用分层随机抽样方法，从不同省份和高校选取981名大学生进行问卷调查。采用验证性因素分析、回归分析和Bootstrap法等统计方法进行数据分析。
运动参与对大学生的自我不足感有显著的负向预测作用。社会支持在运动参与和自我不足感之间存在显著的中介效应。此外，社会支持的三个维度——主观支持、客观支持和支持利用度——均显示出显著的间接效应。中介路径如下：运动参与→主观支持→自我不足感，运动参与→客观支持→自我不足感，运动参与→支持利用度→自我不足感。
运动参与能显著降低大学生的自我不足感，无论是直接作用还是通过社会支持的间接作用。未来，高校可从运动参与和社会支持的角度优化体育活动空间、构建社会支持网络，帮助减轻学生的自我不足感，促进其身心健康。
