ArticleHeliyon2022
Can sports cartoon watching in childhood promote adult physical activity and mental health? A pathway analysis in Chinese adults.
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- Childhood sports club experiences mitigate the association between childhood socioeconomic disadvantage and functional disability in older Japanese men.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The impacts of physical activity on domain-specific short video usage behaviors among university students.BMC public health · 2025Article
- The link between childhood physical activity enjoyment and adult kinesiophobia in individuals with chronic low back pain.BMC public health · 2024Article
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- The causal effect of physical activity intensity on COVID-19 susceptibility, hospitalization, and severity: Evidence from a mendelian randomization study.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
- Using structural equation modeling to explore the influences of physical activity, mental health, well-being, and loneliness on Douyin usage at bedtime.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
Physical activity is essential to maintain physical and mental health. Unfortunately, insufficient physical activity has become a common phenomenon worldwide in the past decade, and the absence of interest in physical activity is assumed a reason. Therefore, strategies for fostering interests and promoting public engagement are in need. We conducted a questionnaire survey during September 2021 that involved 1202 adults to capture data on sports and relevant cartoon watching experiences during childhood; Intensity and frequency of physical activity, depression (PHQ-9), and anxiety (GAD-7) during adulthood. Structural equation modeling was employed to examine pathways between watching sports cartoon in childhood and physical activity and mental health in adulthood. The results suggest that childhood sports cartoon watching may have indirect and positive impacts on adult physical activity and, in turn, on mental health. Childhood sports experience is a critical mediator role linking childhood sports cartoon watching, adult physical activity, and adult mental health. In conclusion, watching sports cartoon may help cultivate sports interests and promote children's participation in sports, and the sports experiences may be a continuous and beneficial factor that connects childhood and adulthood. These findings indicate a framework to understand the durative positive impact of cartoons and maybe other children's film and television works.
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