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ArticleBehavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Anxiety and Sleep Quality Amelioration in College Students: A Comparative Study between Team Sports and Individual Sports.

Chaoxin Ji, Jun Yang, Lin Lin, Song Chen

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Article in Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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Chaoxin JiPhysical Education Department, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China.ORCID 0000-0003-3817-2257
Jun YangCollege of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0599-1416
Lin LinSchool of Social and Political Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK.
Song ChenPhysical Education Department, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China.

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National Natural Science Foundation of China 61773099
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Abstract

backgroundAnxiety is one of the most common mental disorders and is often accompanied by sleep disturbances. Studies have focused on the ameliorative effect of sports games on anxiety and its subsidiary issues. However, the effect on the improvement of such mental and physical disorders between individual sports and team group sports is not yet clear, especially regarding their effects on anxiety and sleep quality improvement. Therefore, this paper explores the improvement effects of individual sports and team sports participation on anxiety symptoms and sleep quality amelioration.

objectiveTo explore the effects of individual and team group sports participation on ameliorating college students' anxiety symptoms and sleep quality.

methodsA total of 197 college students were sampled in the study. The self-rating anxiety scale (SAS) and Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI) were used to assess the severity of anxiety symptoms and level of sleep quality. Participants were randomly divided into three groups: team sports, individual sports, and control groups. The distribution ratio of these groups was 1:1:1.

resultsGenerally, compared with the control group, the subjects in the team sports group and individual sports group had greater improvements in anxiety amelioration and sleep quality improvements. Specifically, the improvement effect between individual and team sports groups was different. To assess the resulting differences, improvements in anxiety symptoms and sleep quality were compared between the team sports group and the individual sports group with reference to the mean change in the control group. In the corrected model, the odds advantage ratio (OR) of anxiety symptom improvement after individual sports was 3.18 (CI 2.87-11.21), and the advantage OR of anxiety symptom improvement after team sports was 4.99 (CI 4.06-14.87). The advantage OR of sleep quality improvement after individual sports was 7.32 (CI 5.53-18.22), and the advantage OR of anxiety symptom improvement after team sports was 7.98 (CI 6.69-19.98).

conclusionAfter 6 weeks of intervention, it was found that both team sports and individual sports improved anxiety symptoms and sleep quality with different effects. Team sports were better at improving anxiety, while individual sports and team sports shared the same improvement effect with no significant difference in sleep quality improvement.

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anxietycollege studentsindividual sportssleep qualityteam sports

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PMCPMC9138125

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