Anxiety Status of Female Chinese Ph.D. Candidates and Its Association with Sports

Mao, Yupeng; Zhu, Yongsheng; Jia, Changjun; Sun, Fengxin; Chen, Song; Liu, Bing

doi:10.3390/healthcare10071203

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“…Some studies show that stress also potentiates anxiety and impairs emotion regulation [ 13 , 14 , 15 ]. The survey by Mao Yupeng et al (2022) showed that the stress faced by Chinese female Ph.D. candidates made them more anxious [ 16 ]. A study by Yukihiro Suzuki et al (2021) revealed an important mechanism of emotion regulation in response to stress, which reflects the level of modulation induced by a stressor [ 17 ].…”

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Fitness Dance Counteracts Female Ph.D. Candidates’ Stress by Affecting Emotion Regulation

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Background: The impact of stress on the nation’s physical and mental health is considerable. Exercise is considered to have beneficial effects on mental health and the capacity for coping with stress. The purpose of this study is to verify the effects of fitness dance intervention on female Ph.D. candidates’ stress, and compare it with the intervention effects of MBSR. Method: A repeated measurement experimental design was used to evaluate the effects of fitness dance and MBSR on Chinese female Ph.D. candidates’ stress. Results: Twelve weeks of fitness dance and MBSR can reduce participants’ stress from severe to moderate. Eight weeks of fitness dance can reduce the tension from perceived stress (p = 0.019) and loss of control from perceived stress (p = 0.043). Twelve weeks of fitness dance can reduce the tension from perceived stress (p < 0.000), loss of control from perceived stress (p = 0.002) and perceived stress (p = 0.001). Fitness dance and MBSR affect emotion regulation, thereby affecting stress. Fitness dance reduced participants’ stress by improving their cognitive reappraisal ability. MBSR reduced participants’ stress by improving their cognitive reappraisal ability and expression suppression ability. Conclusions: Fitness dance, as a method of exercise intervention, is suitable for reducing Chinese female Ph.D. candidates’ stress.

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Fitness Dance Counteracts Female Ph.D. Candidates’ Stress by Affecting Emotion Regulation

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“…For instance, a study that explored the obstacles encountered by doctoral students in Iran showed that formal and informal communication between students and faculties was one of the factors contributing to their stress (Hemmati & Mahdie, 2020). A study exploring the challenges encountered by Chinese doctoral students from China has shown several predominant factors causing stress to doctor-al students, such as stress from publication, the dismay of an unpromising future, delayed graduation, and anxieties in the commutations with supervisors (Mao et al, 2022). Similar factors were also confirmed by another study, which also points out two more factors, financial factors, such as limited Ph.D. project funding, and personal factors like family pressure and marriage factors causing stress to doctoral students (Wang et al, 2019).…”

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A Case Study of Chinese Female Doctoral Students in a Malaysian University

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Xianxin,

Liu

2023

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Studies have proven the negative influence of stress both on doctoral students’ academic performance and their well-being from different contents. The stress sources were also well investigated in the past literature. However, the situation of female Chinese doctoral students, especially those who have married with children and left their families behind to study in Malaysia just after the reopening of post-pandemic was still rare. To bridge the gap and understand the challenges faced by them, this case study investigated the current situations faced by female doctoral students from China studying in a public Malaysian university with a purposeful sampling method. Five purposefully chosen participants were interviewed and the transcripts were analysed thematically. The findings indicate that their lives in Malaysia are satisfactory. In general, their lives as doctoral students in Malaysia are relatively less stressful, which contradicts the findings from some past literature. The specific characteristics of these five participants of this case study such as the identity transformation to be a full-time female doctoral student and the similarity between local culture and Chinese culture can be utilized to explain the different findings.

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Effects of Fitness Dance and Funny Running on Anxiety of Female Ph.D. Candidates

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Anxiety has been widely prevalent among female Ph.D. candidates. There is a positive correlation between exercise and mental health promotion. Nevertheless, little is known about the use of fitness dance and funny running to intervene in the anxiety of female Ph.D. candidates. In this paper, the effects of fitness dance and funny running on the anxiety of female Ph.D. candidates were evaluated by a repeated measurement experimental design. We randomly divided the participants into two groups, one group received a fitness dance exercise, and the other received a funny running exercise. The Spielberger State–Trait Anxiety Inventory was used to investigate the female Ph.D. candidates’ anxiety. Repeated measures ANOVA was used to test the effects of a fitness dance group and a funny running group on participants’ anxiety, and to compare the differences between the two groups. Results showed that a 12-week fitness dance and funny running can alleviate participants’ anxiety from severe to moderate. Specifically, fitness dance increased the positive emotional experience of participants’ state anxiety (p = 0.018) and trait anxiety (p = 0.019) at 8-week, and decreased the negative emotional experience of state anxiety (p = 0.012), trait anxiety (p = 0.008), state anxiety level (p = 0.001) and trait anxiety level (p = 0.034) at 12-week. Funny running increased the positive emotional experience of participants’ state anxiety (p = 0.014), and trait anxiety (p = 0.002), and reduced the negative emotional experience of state anxiety (p = 0.043), state anxiety level (p = 0.047) and trait anxiety level (p = 0.022) at 12-week. This study suggests that fitness dance and funny running are healthy behaviors, which can help Chinese female Ph.D. candidates to dissociate from anxiety and stress situations and develop a healthy lifestyle. It is worth noting that the effects of fitness dance on Chinese female Ph.D. candidates’ anxiety are better than that of funny running. Based on the good effects of fitness dance in alleviating the anxiety of Chinese female Ph.D. candidates, future researches can design fitness dance intervention programs combining exercise therapy and psychotherapy according to the anxiety characteristics of female Ph.D. candidates, such as mindfulness fitness dance programs.

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Anxiety Status of Female Chinese Ph.D. Candidates and Its Association with Sports

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Fitness Dance Counteracts Female Ph.D. Candidates’ Stress by Affecting Emotion Regulation

Fitness Dance Counteracts Female Ph.D. Candidates’ Stress by Affecting Emotion Regulation

A Case Study of Chinese Female Doctoral Students in a Malaysian University

Effects of Fitness Dance and Funny Running on Anxiety of Female Ph.D. Candidates

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