ArticleBMC public health2024
The relationship between physical exercise and problematic internet use in college students: the chain-mediated role of self-control and loneliness.
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- Analyzing the effects of physical exercise on procrastination among college students using a chain-of-intermediates model.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The Relationship Between Physical Activity and Problematic Internet Use in Turkish College Students: The Chain-Mediated Role of Self-Control and Distress.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2025Article
- Social media addiction as the central mediating variable to explore the mechanism between physical exercise and sleep quality.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The Brain in the Age of Smartphones and the Internet: The Possible Protective Role of Sport.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Investigating the Relationship between Loneliness, Physical Activity, and Internet Addiction: The Mediating Role of Academic Burnout and Self-Control.Iranian journal of psychiatry · 2025Article
- Association Between Digital Addiction and Physical Activity in Korean Adults Across Age Groups: An Analysis of Community Health Survey Data.Journal of preventive medicine and public health = Yebang Uihakhoe chi · 2025Article
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Abstract
objectiveFrom the perspective of exercise psychology, to investigate the antefacts of problematic internet use (PIU) in college students, and to reveal the chain mediating effect of self-control and loneliness between physical exercise and PIU.
methods1081 college students in Chongqing, China were investigated by Physical Activity Rating Scale (PARS-3), Self-control Scale (SCS), Loneliness Scale (UCLA), and Internet Addiction Scale (CIAS-R), and the data were statistically analyzed by SPSS25.0 and AMOS21.0 software.
results(1) There was a significant negative correlation between physical exercise and PIU, and the former has a direct negative predictive effect on the latter. (2) Physical exercise could indirectly influence the PIU of college students through the partial mediating effect of self-control and loneliness, respectively. (3) Physical exercise could also indirectly influence PIU through the chain mediation of "self-control → loneliness".
conclusionMaintaining regular physical exercise can promote the improvement of self-control and the weakening of the loneliness experience of college students, and then help to prevent or alleviate PIU behavior, which is of great significance for psychological and behavioral health.
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