ArticleFrontiers in psychology2025
Research on the mechanism of the impact of physical activity on negative emotions of middle school students, and the chain mediating role of social competence and interpersonal relationships.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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
5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Physical exercise and school adaptation among junior high school students: the chain mediating roles of self-efficacy and mental health.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Socio-Emotional Skills and Physical Activity in Primary and Secondary Education Students.The Journal of school health · 2026Article
- The association between passive social media use and personal growth initiative: a moderated mediation model.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Physical activity and social adaptation in high school students: the chain mediating roles of interpersonal relationships and psychological resilience.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Associations between negative emotions and eating behaviors in older adults: a network analysis and the mediating role of physical activity.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
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Background: This study aims to explore the relationship between physical activity and negative emotions (Depression and anxiety) of high school students and to investigate the mechanisms by which social competence and interpersonal relationships play a role. Methods: A random sampling method was used to select 9,504 students from Shandong Province as the survey subjects. The Physical Activity Questionnaire for Adolescents (PAQ-C), Social Adaptive Behavior Scale (SSBS), Quality of Life Scale for Children and Adolescents (QLSCA), and SCL-90 Symptom Checklist were used to conduct the questionnaire survey. Results: We found that (1) Physical activity was significantly positively correlated with social competence and interpersonal relationships ( Conclusion: Our results show that physical activity can reduce the level of negative emotions of high school students and enhance their social competence and interpersonal relationships, thus alleviating their negative emotions.
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.