Wang Wenhui, Wang Jiale, Liu Yang, Deng Liping
Southwest Jiaotong University Hope College, Chengdu, China.
School of Sports Science, Jishou University, Jishou, China.
Sci Rep. 2025 Jul 1;15(1):22209. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-05173-z.
Physical activity is highly correlated with social media dependence in adolescence, but the underlying mechanisms between these variables require further investigation. This study suggests two potential psychological pathways linking physical activity and social media dependence in adolescence, with depression potentially serving as a mediating factor and difficulty describing feelings acting as a moderating factor. A self-reported survey was conducted with 3,247 Chinese adolescents, including measures of physical activity, social media dependence, depression, and difficulty describing feelings. Descriptive statistics and correlation analyses were performed on these variables, and a mediation-moderation model was developed. Physical activity showed a significant negative correlation with social media dependence, depression, and difficulty describing feelings. Additionally, depression was positively correlated with both social media dependence and difficulty describing feelings, and difficulty describing feelings was positively correlated with social media dependence. Furthermore, difficulty describing feelings moderated the relationship between depression and social media dependence in adolescence. This study provides further insights into the psychological mechanisms underlying the relationship between physical activity and social media dependence in adolescence. Depression serves as a mediating factor, while difficulty describing feelings acts as a moderating factor in the relationship between depression and social media dependence. These findings enhance our understanding of the role of depression and difficulty describing feelings in the relationship between physical activity and social media dependence, offering valuable implications for more comprehensive and targeted interventions aimed at reducing social media dependence among adolescents.
体育活动与青少年的社交媒体依赖高度相关，但这些变量之间的潜在机制需要进一步研究。本研究提出了两条潜在的心理途径，将青少年的体育活动与社交媒体依赖联系起来，其中抑郁可能作为中介因素，而描述情感困难则作为调节因素。对3247名中国青少年进行了一项自陈式调查，包括体育活动、社交媒体依赖、抑郁和描述情感困难的测量。对这些变量进行了描述性统计和相关性分析，并建立了中介调节模型。体育活动与社交媒体依赖、抑郁和描述情感困难呈显著负相关。此外，抑郁与社交媒体依赖和描述情感困难均呈正相关，描述情感困难与社交媒体依赖呈正相关。此外，描述情感困难调节了青少年抑郁与社交媒体依赖之间的关系。本研究进一步深入探讨了青少年体育活动与社交媒体依赖关系背后的心理机制。抑郁作为中介因素，而描述情感困难在抑郁与社交媒体依赖的关系中起调节作用。这些发现加深了我们对抑郁和描述情感困难在体育活动与社交媒体依赖关系中作用的理解，为旨在减少青少年社交媒体依赖的更全面、有针对性的干预措施提供了有价值的启示。
