ArticleFrontiers in psychology2026
Sport motivation is associated with lower aggression via emotional intelligence and self-control: a serial mediation study in undergraduates.
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Background: Whether sport engagement is associated with lower aggression remains contested. Less is known about how sport motivation, that is, reasons for engaging in sport, relates to aggression via emotion- and self-regulatory resources. These psychological pathways are rarely examined within a unified framework. Methods: In a cross-sectional survey, 485 students (18-25 years) from a public university completed validated Chinese versions of the Sport Motivation Scale II, the Wong and Law Emotional Intelligence Scale, the Self-Control Scale, and the Brief Aggression Questionnaire. Mediation was tested using Hayes' PROCESS (Model 6; serial mediation with EI → SC) with percentile bootstrapping (5,000 resamples), controlling for sex and age. Results: Sport motivation was negatively associated with aggressive behavior (total effect: Conclusion: In this undergraduate sample, sport motivation was associated with lower aggression partly via a hypothesized serial indirect association through emotional intelligence and self-control (EI → SC), even after adjusting for sex and age and across alternative operationalizations of sport motivation. Given the cross-sectional self-report design, the findings should be interpreted as associational; longitudinal and experimental studies are needed to test temporal ordering and causal mechanisms.
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