ArticleFrontiers in psychology2025
The relationship of physical exercise and suicidal ideation among college students: a moderated chain mediation model.
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- Attachment, Physical Leisure, and Suicidal Ideation in Emerging Adulthood: Evidence from University Students.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Scalable prediction of suicidal risk in university students: a three steps machine learning approach in university settings.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Multidimensional determinants of suicide risk in emerging adults: the roles of sleep health, chronotype, exercise participation, earthquake exposure, and gender.BMC public health · 2026Article
- The Association Between Social Support and Suicidal Ideation Among Undergraduate Students: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2026Review
- The relationship between physical activity and academic burnout among Yi primary school students in Southwest China: a moderated chain-mediation model.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Associations between self-compassion and suicidal ideation among college students: the serial mediating roles of meaning in life and psychological resilience and the moderating role of perceived stress.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The impact of physical exercise on depression among college students: the mediating role of core self-evaluation and meaning in life.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
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Abstract
Background: This study examines the impact of physical exercise on college students' perceived social support, meaning in life, and suicidal ideation, and further investigates the mediating and sequential mediating roles of perceived social support and meaning in life in the association between physical exercise and suicidal ideation, additionally exploring the moderating role of gender. Methods: A total of 545 Chinese college students completed the Physical Activity Rating Scale-3 (PARS-3), Perceived Social Support Scale (PSSS), Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ), and Self-rating Idea of Suicide Scale (SIOSS). A bias-corrected percentile bootstrap approach was applied to assess the sequential mediating effects of perceived social support and meaning in life on the relationship between physical exercise and suicidal ideation. Results: (1) Physical exercise and suicidal ideation were negatively correlated ( Conclusion: Physical exercise directly reduces suicidal ideation among college students and indirectly influences it through perceived social support and meaning in life, both as individual mediators and in a sequential pathway. Gender moderates both the initial segment of the physical exercise → meaning in life → suicidal ideation pathway and the direct effect on suicidal ideation.
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