Unveiling the role of physical exercise in promoting social interaction and adolescents’ psychological prosperity

IF 2.4 3区医学 Q2 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

Physiology & Behavior Pub Date : 2025-03-23 DOI:10.1016/j.physbeh.2025.114890

Jiayu Li , Shanliang Zhang

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Abstract

The existing research on physical exercise mainly focuses on the effect of exercise intervention, and pays less attention to the role of physical exercise in social interaction. From the perspective of social interaction, this study uses social network theory to explore explored how physical exercise affects adolescents’ psychological prosperity through relationship network construction, and examines the moderating effect of proactive personality with the help of personality trait theory. The empirical analysis of 652 paired data from multiple sources and time points revealed that physical exercise can significantly promote adolescents’ relationship network construction. Adolescents’ relationship network construction has a significant positive effect on their psychological prosperity, and can play a mediating role between physical exercise and psychological prosperity. Proactive personality can not only moderate the direct relationship between physical exercise and adolescents’ relationship network construction, but also moderate the indirect relationship between physical exercise and adolescents’ psychological prosperity via relationship network construction. These findings reveal the role of physical exercise in promoting social interaction and adolescents’ psychological prosperity, helping people to have a more comprehensive understanding of the impact of physical exercise and providing theoretical guidance for the realization of adolescents’ psychological well-being.

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揭示体育锻炼在促进社会交往和青少年心理繁荣中的作用

现有的体育锻炼研究主要集中在运动干预的效果上，对体育锻炼在社会交往中的作用关注较少。本研究从社会互动的角度出发，运用社会网络理论探讨体育锻炼如何通过关系网络构建影响青少年心理繁荣，并借助人格特质理论考察主动性人格的调节作用。对652个多来源、多时间点的配对数据进行实证分析发现，体育锻炼可以显著促进青少年关系网络的构建。青少年关系网络构建对其心理繁荣有显著的正向影响，并且在体育锻炼与心理繁荣之间可以起到中介作用。主动性人格不仅可以调节体育锻炼与青少年关系网络构建之间的直接关系，还可以通过关系网络构建调节体育锻炼与青少年心理健康之间的间接关系。这些发现揭示了体育锻炼在促进社会交往和青少年心理繁荣方面的作用，有助于人们更全面地了解体育锻炼的影响，为青少年心理健康的实现提供理论指导。

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Physiology & Behavior 医学-行为科学

CiteScore

5.70

自引率

3.40%

发文量

274

审稿时长

47 days

期刊介绍： Physiology & Behavior is aimed at the causal physiological mechanisms of behavior and its modulation by environmental factors. The journal invites original reports in the broad area of behavioral and cognitive neuroscience, in which at least one variable is physiological and the primary emphasis and theoretical context are behavioral. The range of subjects includes behavioral neuroendocrinology, psychoneuroimmunology, learning and memory, ingestion, social behavior, and studies related to the mechanisms of psychopathology. Contemporary reviews and theoretical articles are welcomed and the Editors invite such proposals from interested authors.