ArticleFrontiers in psychology2025
The relationship between physical activity and Internet addiction among Chinese adolescents: exploring latent profile analysis and multi-level mediating mechanisms.
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- A systematic review of internet addiction in hospitalized adolescents: proposing a hospital-adapted moderated dual mediation model of emotional dysregulation and social compensation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Conflicted and healthy behavioural profiles in adolescents: a latent profile analysis of traditional sports attitude, physical activity attitude, and digital game addiction.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Effects of a Dance-Based Intervention on Affective States and Self-Esteem in Adolescents Receiving Psychiatric Care: Differences Between Youth with and Without Problematic Internet Use-A Pilot Study.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Bullying victimization and depressive symptoms among left-behind children: a moderated mediation model involving Internet Addiction.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Digital health literacy and disordered eating among adolescents: the chain mediating roles of physical activity and problematic social media use.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- The relationship between sport motivation and problematic social networking sites use among adolescents: a study integrating mediation modeling and network analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
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Abstract
In recent years, adolescent Internet addiction has emerged as a pressing concern, undermining young people's psychological well-being and social functioning. Although regular physical activity is known to bolster adolescents' mental health, its direct and indirect protective effects against Internet addiction-and the psychosocial processes involved-remain insufficiently understood, particularly in terms of how these effects differ across subgroups identified via latent profile analysis. Given this, the present study, employing structural equation modeling (SEM), delineated the factor structures and predictive relationships among physical activity, family cohesion, prosocial behavior, and Internet addiction. Moreover, to investigate how these pathways vary across different user groups, we conducted latent profile analysis (LPA) to identify distinct Internet-use typologies and tested their Mediation effects. The measurement model supported adequate construct validity and internal consistency across all latent variables, ensuring the reliability of subsequent structural analyses. SEM results demonstrated that physical activity exerted a significant negative direct effect on Internet addiction (β = -0.227,
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