ArticleBMC psychology2024
Physical activity and social anxiety symptoms among Chinese college students: a serial mediation model of psychological resilience and sleep problems.
Article in BMC psychology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Pooled it
- The Association Between Social Anxiety and Sleep Among Young People: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Review
- The relationship between physical activity and social adjustment in adolescents: the longitudinal mediating role of emotional resilience.BMC public health · 2026Article
- The relationship between physical exercise and social anxiety among college students: the chain mediation of self-concept clarity and psychological resilience.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Physical activity and social anxiety among rural-origin university students in Southwest China: exploring potential associative patterns of body image satisfaction and social capital.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The associational pathway of emotional exhaustion among college students under perception of involution: the mediation model of self-compassion and psychological resilience.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Within-person reciprocal associations among physical activity, loneliness, and social anxiety in adolescence.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Exercise as an adjunct intervention for social anxiety disorder: a mini-review.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Review
- Physical activity relates to adolescent social anxiety: evidence from a structural equation model involving resilience and self-efficacy.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Physical activity as a modest behavioral pathway between parental marital conflict and adolescent anxiety: exploring gender differences.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The impact of shyness on social anxiety among college students: Mediating role of regulatory emotional self-efficacy and resilience.PloS one · 2026Article
- Assessing Health Behaviors as Predictors of Psychological Resilience and BMI in a National and Small Military College Sample.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Scale of employees' initiative for proactive health: development and validity testing.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Is physical exercise associated with reduced adolescent social anxiety mediated by psychological resilience?: evidence from a longitudinal multi-wave study in China.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2025Article
- A study on the relationship between high school students' sleep quality, physical exercise, academic stress, and subjective well-being.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Relationships Between Exercise Components and Social Anxiety Levels Among Chinese College Students.Psychiatry investigation · 2025Article
- Mobile phone addiction and negative emotions: an empirical study among adolescents in Jiangxi Province.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Physical activity and mobile phone addiction among Chinese college students: a chain mediation model of social anxiety and loneliness.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Vigorous physical activity is associated with mental well-being: indirect associations via resilience and physical self-esteem in university students.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The relationship between physical activity and social anxiety in adolescents: a cross-lagged study.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundSocial anxiety symptoms are common and harmful psychological illness in college students. Although some studies have illustrated that physical activity could reduce social anxiety symptoms, the specific mechanism is still unclear. Based on theoretical studies on resilience and sleep, this study constructed a serial mediation model to explore whether they mediate between physical activity and social anxiety symptoms among college students.
methodsThis study surveyed 9,530 college students from three colleges in China to explore the mediating effect of physical activity and sleep problems between physical activity and social anxiety symptoms. Participants were investigated with the International Physical Activity Questionnaire, Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, Sleep-related problems, and the Social Interaction Anxiety Scale and the Social Phobia Scale. Correlations between variables were analysed using Pearson correlation analysis and mediation analyses were performed using SPSS PROCESS macro 3.3 software.
resultThe study found that physical activity was negatively associated with social anxiety symptoms and sleep problems, but positively with psychological resilience. After controlling for sociodemographic variables, physical activity can not only indirectly alleviate social anxiety symptoms through the separate mediation of psychological resilience and sleep problems, but also through the serial mediation of psychological resilience and sleep problems.
conclusionThese results suggest that improving physical activity levels could reduce social anxiety scores by increasing psychological resilience and sleep quality. This is of great reference significance for the prevention and intervention of college students' mental health.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.