ArticleSleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung2022
Sleep health mediates the relationship between physical activity and depression symptoms.
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- Physical activity and health-related quality of life among Chinese adolescents: a cross-sectional statistical path model involving sleep disturbance and depressive symptoms.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Article
- Psychometric network analysis of depression in hypertensive older adults: identifying core symptoms and modifiable risk factors.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
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- Sleep Quality and Sex-Specific Physical Activity Benefits Predict Mental Health in Romanian Medical Students: A Cross-Sectional Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Adherence to the 24-hour movement behavior guidelines and depression risk among older adults from the United States.Journal of activity, sedentary and sleep behaviors · 2025Article
- The mediating role of physical activity, morning wake-up time, and sleep-inducing medication use in the relationship between age and depression: a path analysis of a large kurdish cohort study in Iran.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Understanding the moderating role of gender in physical activity enjoyment and mental well-being: evidence from university students' campus recreation participation.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Designing work for healthy sleep: A multidimensional, latent transition approach to employee sleep health.Journal of occupational health psychology · 2024Article
- Influence of Regular Physical Activity on Sleep.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2024Review
- The relationship between internet gaming disorder, sleeping quality, self-compassion, physical activity participation and psychological distress: A path analysis.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2024Article
- Commentary: Mastery is central: an examination of complex interrelationships between physical health, stress and adaptive cognition, and social connection with depression and anxiety symptoms.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
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- Emotional Exhaustion, a Proxy for Burnout, Is Associated with Sleep Health in French Healthcare Workers without Anxiety or Depressive Symptoms: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- The association between multidimensional sleep health and migraine burden among patients with episodic migraine.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2023Article
- Bidirectional associations of physical activity, sleep, and self-reported mental health in young adults participating in an online wellness intervention during the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
purposeThis study aimed to investigate cross-sectional associations between physical activity, sleep health, and depression symptoms using mediation models.
methodsParticipants (N = 1576, M
resultsGood sleep health (direct effect: β = - .273, t = - 13.87, p < .0001) and high levels of physical activity (direct effect: β = - .092, t = - 4.73, p < .0001) were both individually associated with fewer depression symptoms. Sleep health significantly mediated 19% of the association between physical activity and depression symptoms (indirect effect: β = - .022, 95% CI [- .036 to - .008]), while physical activity significantly mediated 3% of the relationship between sleep health and depression symptoms (indirect effect: β = - .008, 95% CI [- .014 to - .003]).
conclusionPhysical activity and sleep health act as predictors and mediators of depression symptoms.
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