The Relationship between Physical Exercise and Smartphone Addiction among Chinese College Students: The Mediating Effect of Core Self-Evaluation

Gong, Yaqiong; Yang, Haibo; Bai, Xuejun; Wang, Yuehua; An, Jing

doi:10.3390/bs13080647

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“…While numerous studies emphasize the detrimental effects of increasing smartphone dependency on adolescent mental health [13,16,18], emerging research suggests that physical activity may be employed to mitigate this dependency [25,27]. In particular, this aligns with research results indicating that aerobic exercise interventions reduced the desire for mobile phone use among university students with high mobile phone dependency [33] and identifying that exercise negatively predicted smartphone addiction [34]. Our study provides support for this notion; furthermore, the findings underscore the severity of the decline in exercise time with increasing age, which in turn leads to an increase in smartphone dependency, negatively affecting happiness levels among adolescents.…”

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The Longitudinal Mediating Effect of Smartphone Dependency on the Relationship between Exercise Time and Subjective Happiness in Adolescents

Kim,

Ahn

2023

Healthcare

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The phenomenon of adolescents engaging in less physical activity as they age raises several concerns. Among these, we hypothesized that this trend may negatively impact their mental health and smartphone dependency. Thus, the aim of this study was to longitudinally examine the mediating effect of smartphone dependency in the relationship between adolescents’ exercise time and subjective well-being. For analysis, publicly available data from the 2018 Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey were utilized, with a total of 2,242 participants’ data included in the analysis. Latent growth modeling results revealed a significant linear decrease in adolescents’ exercise time and subjective well-being each year, while smartphone dependency exhibited an increasing trend. Furthermore, the significance tests of indirect effects indicated that the mediating effect of the changing trend in smartphone dependency between the changing trends in exercise time and subjective happiness in adolescents was statistically significant. These findings suggest that as grade levels increase, reducing exercise time can lead to higher smartphone dependency among adolescents, ultimately resulting in decreased subjective well-being.

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The Longitudinal Mediating Effect of Smartphone Dependency on the Relationship between Exercise Time and Subjective Happiness in Adolescents

Kim,

Ahn

2023

Healthcare

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“…Some studies have pointed out that core self-evaluation has a direct negative effect on academic stress and physical exercise is associated with all four core selfevaluative trait indicators, including self-esteem (Sonstroem and Morgan, 1989), self-efficacy (Wang et al, 2022), emotional stability (Morgan and Goldston, 1987), and sources of psychological control (Johnson et al, 2008). Among other things, increased physical exercise significantly increased students' levels of self-esteem and self-confidence (Liu et al, 2021), positively predicted self-efficacy (Gong et al, 2023), as well as increased recognition of their own abilities, which suggests that increased physical exercise improves core self-evaluation. Therefore, students' core self-evaluation may play an important role in mediating the relationship between extracurricular physical exercise and academic stress.…”

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An analysis of the role of college students' core self-evaluation in the relationship between extracurricular physical exercise and academic stress

Zhu,

Cao,

Yin

et al. 2024

Front. Psychol.

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ObjectiveTo explore the role of college students' core self-evaluation in the association between extracurricular physical exercise and academic stress, and to provide a reference and basis for effectively alleviating current college students' academic stress.MethodsA stratified cluster random sampling method was used to conduct an online survey using the China College Student Mental Health Screening Scale, the Core Self-Esteem Scale, and a self-developed questionnaire for 1,249 college students from 8 junior colleges in Jiangsu Province, China, in January 2023, and analyses were conducted using bivariate correlation and mediation effect tests.ResultsMore than half of the students were worried about lagging behind other students in their studies and worrying about exams, as well as more than half of the students had <2 h of extracurricular physical exercise per week in terms of academic stress. Significant correlations were found between extracurricular physical exercise time and core self-evaluation (r = 0.225, p < 0.01), academic stress (r = −0.317, p < 0.01), and between core self-evaluation and academic stress (r =−0.371, p < 0.01). Extracurricular physical exercise had a negative predictive effect on academic stress (effect = −0.306, 95%CI: −0.361~-0.251) and partially through the mediating path of core self-evaluation, (effect = −0.067, 95%CI: −0.091~-0.046), with a mediating effect of 21.9%. Among them, the mediating effect of core self-evaluation was highest in “worrying about lagging behind other students in their studies” and “worrying about exams”, which accounted for 24.4% and 24.3% respectively.ConclusionCurrently, college students have different degrees of academic stress; extracurricular physical exercise can reduce academic stress through direct effects, and also through the indirect effect of improving the level of core self-evaluation, and active extracurricular physical exercise has become an important way to promote students' physical and mental health.

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“…Many studies have also shown that men score higher than women on core self-evaluations [47]. However, other studies have shown no signi cant difference in gender performance on core self-evaluations [48][49][50]. In summary, it is clear that there is still a debate in the research on the effect of gender on interpersonal adjustment, core self-evaluation, and depression.…”

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Interpersonal adjustment and depression in college students: mediation of core self-evaluation and moderating effects of gender

2024

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Background With the high incidence of college student suicides due to depression, it is critical to understand the factors that influence depression in college students. This study addresses the interconnected relationships among interpersonal adjustment, depression, core self-evaluation and gender among college students. Objectives This study aims is to explore how college students’ interpersonal adjustment is to influence and provide due insights for effective interventions for college students’ depression. Methodology We used the Interpersonal Adjustment Scale for College Students, Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scales, and the Core Self-Evaluation Scale, and recruited 1920 college students to fill out the questionnaire, and finally obtained 1748 valid participants. Results The results showed that college students’ interpersonal adjustment and core self-evaluation negatively predicted depression, and core self-evaluation mediated the relationship between college students’ interpersonal adjustment and depression. While gender moderated the relationship between college students’ interpersonal adjustment and core self-evaluation. Conclusions and implications Interpersonal adjustment and core self-evaluation can serve as significant predictors of depression in college students. Moreover, interpersonal adjustment has a significantly higher effect on depression among female college students than male college students. Based on the results of the study, we proposes to enhance the college students’ interpersonal and core self-evaluation adaptability to cope with the problem of college students’ depression, and we should pay more attention to female college students.

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The Relationship between Physical Exercise and Smartphone Addiction among Chinese College Students: The Mediating Effect of Core Self-Evaluation

Cited by 7 publications

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The Longitudinal Mediating Effect of Smartphone Dependency on the Relationship between Exercise Time and Subjective Happiness in Adolescents

The Longitudinal Mediating Effect of Smartphone Dependency on the Relationship between Exercise Time and Subjective Happiness in Adolescents

An analysis of the role of college students' core self-evaluation in the relationship between extracurricular physical exercise and academic stress

Interpersonal adjustment and depression in college students: mediation of core self-evaluation and moderating effects of gender

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