ArticleBMC public health2023
The role of loneliness and learning burnout in the regulation of physical exercise on internet addiction in Chinese college students.
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- Investigating the Relationship between Loneliness, Physical Activity, and Internet Addiction: The Mediating Role of Academic Burnout and Self-Control.Iranian journal of psychiatry · 2025Article
- Rejection Sensitivity and Problematic Internet Use Among Medical Students: A Moderated Mediation Model Involving Loneliness and Self-Control.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The relationship between Internet addiction and academic burnout in undergraduates: a chain mediation model.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Negative life events and internet addiction among college students: role of physical exercise and prosocial behavior.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The relationship between physical exercise and academic burnout in adolescents: the chain-mediated role of internet addiction and self-control.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Effects of physical activity on academic burnout among rural left-behind children in China: the chain-mediated roles of loneliness and general self-efficacy.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- A chain-mediated model of the effect of physical exercise on loneliness.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The relationship between physical exercise and problematic internet use in college students: the chain-mediated role of self-control and loneliness.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Effects of physical exercise on adolescent short video addiction: A moderated mediation model.Heliyon · 2024Article
- A Pilot Study on the Association of Internet Use with Sports Practice and Sex in Italian Adolescents.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo explore the mediating effects of physical exercise on internet addiction in Chinese college students and to reveal the mediating effects of loneliness and learning burnout on physical exercise and internet addiction.
methods1238 Chinese college students were investigated by physical exercise scale, loneliness scale, learning burnout scale, and internet addiction scale. The SPSS 27.0 was used to conduct a correlation analysis of the data and AMOS21.0 was used to establish a structural equation model to investigate the mediation effect.
resultsPhysical exercise could directly negatively predict the internet addiction of college students. Loneliness and learning burnout partially mediate the relationship between physical exercise and internet addiction, and the mediating pathways included "physical exercise-loneliness-internet addiction", "physical exercise-learning burnout-internet addiction", and "physical exercise-loneliness-learning burnout-internet addiction", accounting for 9.38%, 15.63% and 21.88% of the total effect, respectively. In the chain mediation effect, it was mainly the loneliness and sub-dimensions of learning burnout (low mood, misbehavior) that were at play.
conclusionPhysical exercise not only directly affects internet addiction of college students but also indirectly affects internet addiction through the independent mediating effect of loneliness and learning burnout and the chain mediating effect of "loneliness-learning burnout".
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