Yücekaya Mehmet Akif, Uğraş Sinan, Sagin Ahmet Enes, Çetin Arif, Iconomescu Teodora-Mihaela, Talaghir Laurențiu-Gabriel
Department of Sports Management, School of Physical Education and Sports, Dicle University, Diyarbakır, Türkiye.
Department of Physical Education and Sports Teaching, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Çanakkale, Türkiye.
Front Public Health. 2025 Aug 4;13:1617124. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1617124. eCollection 2025.
This study aims to examine the relationships between social support, physical literacy, and healthy lifestyle beliefs in adolescents and to investigate the moderating effect of enjoyment of physical activities on these relationships.
The study was conducted with the participation of 1,349 adolescents. The ages of the participants ranged between 10 and 14 years, and 49.6% were male ( = 669) and 50.4% were female ( = 680). Data were collected using the Healthy Lifestyle Belief Scale for Adolescents to measure adolescents' healthy lifestyle beliefs, the Perceived Physical Literacy Scale for Adolescents (PPLSA) to determine their physical literacy levels, the Social Support Scale in Physical Activities to assess the perception of social support, and the Enjoyment of Physical Activity Scale to measure the level of enjoyment of physical activities. The study tested the moderated mediation model for its association among the variables.
The model developed in this study found social support in PA predicted health lifestyle beliefs, positively, and significantly. Social support and perceptions of a healthy lifestyle are moderated by physical literacy, research shows. A further analysis also found that the relationship between physical literacy and social support is moderated by enjoyment of physical activities. However, the association between social support and healthy lifestyle beliefs and between physical literacy and healthy lifestyle beliefs were not appreciably influenced by enjoyment in physical activity. The findings indicated that social support has a positive and significant effect on physical literacy and attitudes toward healthy lifestyle. Physical literacy was identified as a central contributor to improving adolescents' health habits by mediating the relationship between social support and conceptions of healthy living. However, the enjoyment of fitness did not matter in some situations, the study found. These results further illustrate the importance of promoting social support and physical literacy instruction to promote a wellness lifestyle adoption by adolescents. The possible long-term effects of feeling good about exercising in various settings, and for health-related habits, should receive more scrutiny.
本研究旨在探讨青少年社会支持、身体素养与健康生活方式信念之间的关系，并考察体育活动乐趣对这些关系的调节作用。
本研究共纳入1349名青少年。参与者年龄在10至14岁之间，其中男性占49.6%（n = 669），女性占50.4%（n = 680）。使用青少年健康生活方式信念量表来测量青少年的健康生活方式信念，青少年感知身体素养量表（PPLSA）来确定他们的身体素养水平，体育活动中的社会支持量表来评估社会支持感知，以及体育活动乐趣量表来测量体育活动的乐趣水平，收集数据。本研究对变量间的关联检验了调节中介模型。
本研究建立的模型发现，体育活动中的社会支持对健康生活方式信念有正向且显著的预测作用。研究表明，身体素养对社会支持和健康生活方式认知具有调节作用。进一步分析还发现，体育活动乐趣对身体素养与社会支持之间的关系具有调节作用。然而，体育活动乐趣对社会支持与健康生活方式信念之间的关联以及身体素养与健康生活方式信念之间的关联没有明显影响。研究结果表明，社会支持对身体素养和健康生活方式态度具有正向且显著的影响。身体素养被认为是通过调节社会支持与健康生活观念之间的关系来改善青少年健康习惯的核心因素。然而，研究发现，在某些情况下，健身乐趣并不重要。这些结果进一步说明了促进社会支持和身体素养教育对于促进青少年采用健康生活方式的重要性。在各种环境中对锻炼感觉良好以及对与健康相关习惯可能产生的长期影响，应受到更多审视。
