ArticleJournal of sport and health science2021
The mirror's curse: Weight perceptions mediate the link between physical activity and life satisfaction among 727,865 teens in 44 countries.
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- Analysis of the association between adolescent physical activity and life satisfaction: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Physical activity and mental health: a systematic review and best-evidence synthesis of mediation and moderation studies.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024Pooled it
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- Adolescent Health and Dark Personalities: The Role of Socioeconomic Status, Sports, and Cyber Experiences.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
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- The effect of interpersonal relationship and epidemic attention on negative emotion among medical students: the mediating role of social satisfaction.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- "What If Others Think I Look Like…" The Moderating Role of Social Physique Anxiety and Sex in the Relationship between Physical Activity and Life Satisfaction in Swiss Adolescents.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- A cross-sectional study of anxiety and depression caseness in female competitive figure skaters in Sweden.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2023Article
- Self-Esteem Is Independent Factor and Moderator of School-Related Psychosocial Determinants of Life Satisfaction in Adolescents.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The association between physical performance and subjective wellbeing in Chinese older adults: A cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- The association between social capital indicators and psychological distress in Catalan adolescents.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Relationships among Physical Self-Concept, Physical Activity and Mediterranean Diet in Adolescents from the Province of Granada.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- A bio-ecological framing of evidence on the determinants of adolescent mental health - A scoping review of the international Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) study 1983-2020.SSM - population health · 2020Article
- Interplay between adolescent physical activity and life satisfaction: gender as potential effect modifier.International journal of public health · 2020Article
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Abstract
purposeThe present study aimed to examine the link between physical activity (PA) and life satisfaction in a large international study of adolescents. We also aimed to test whether overweight and underweight perceptions act as mediators and whether age and sex acted as moderators.
methodsFor this purpose, we analyzed data from the Health Behavior in School-aged Children study, which comprises 727,865 observations from 44 nations at 4 measurement occasions.
resultsMultilevel analyses revealed a positive link between PA and life satisfaction. In addition, underweight and overweight perceptions mediated the effect of PA on life satisfaction. We further found that age and sex acted as moderators. In older adolescents, stronger effects were found in the links between PA and life satisfaction, PA and overweight perception, and both weight perceptions and life satisfaction. In addition, in female adolescents, the link between overweight perception and life satisfaction was stronger. Conversely, the links between PA and both weight perceptions were stronger for boys.
conclusionThe results suggest that weight perception explains part of the relationship between PA and life satisfaction in adolescents and that these effects vary as a function of age and sex.
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