ArticleFrontiers in public health2023
Exercise or lie down? The impact of fitness app use on users' wellbeing.
Article in Frontiers in public health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Autonomous motivation moderates the relationship between fitness application usage and exercise behavior through flow experience: a cross-sectional study among Chinese university students.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Article
- The relationship between social networking site body talk and college students' physical Activity: The role of upward appearance comparisons and self-compassion.SSM - population health · 2025Article
- Guideline-Based Digital Exercise Interventions for Reducing Body Weight and Fat and Promoting Physical Activity in Adults With Overweight and Obesity: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Interactive journal of medical research · 2025Review
- The code of sustainable success in fitness apps: social comparison mechanism enabled by user facilitated supports.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Attitudes towards personalised nutrition recommendations in health apps: Results of a cross-sectional online survey.Digital healthArticle
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Abstract
Introduction: The use of fitness apps is becoming more and more widespread, and its impact on people's well-being has received more and more attention. Methods: The relationship between fitness app use and users' well-being and the influence mechanism was explored using structural equation modeling with upward social comparison as the mediating variable and self-control as the moderating variable. Results: The questionnaire survey of 1,452 fitness app users over 18 years old shows that: (1) fitness app use is associated with users' well-being; (2) upward social comparison plays a mediating role in the relationship between fitness app use and users' well-being; (3) self-control has a moderating effect on the relationship between fitness app use and users' well-being. Discussion: Self-control plays a significant moderating role between social comparison and well-being, upward social comparison can improve the well-being of high self-control users but reduce the well-being of low self-control users.
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