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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychol.
Sec. Sport Psychology
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1458460
This article is part of the Research Topic Physical Activity Applied to Learning and Psycho-social Variables in Young People View all 8 articles

The impact of Artistic sports on academic self-efficacy

Provisionally accepted
Yanyan Tian Yanyan Tian 1,2*Haiqing Wang Haiqing Wang 1
  • 1 School of Psychology, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, China
  • 2 Lanzhou Petrochemical Polytechnic, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China

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    Artistic sports have a more positive impact on adolescents on the basis of basic sports. This study delves into the beneficial effects of Artistic sports compared to basic sports in enhancing academic self-efficacy in college students, and investigates the mediating roles of mindfulness, social anxiety, and academic procrastination in this process. A questionnaire survey was conducted among students in some universities in Gansu Province, collecting a total of 1976 online questionnaires, including 263 males and 1713 females, with 1543 participants in Artistic sports courses and 433 participants in basic sports. Data processing was carried out using SPSS 26.0 software and its plugin PROCESS. The analysis results indicate significant differences in mindfulness, social anxiety, academic procrastination, and academic self-efficacy among different types of sports training (ps < 0.05); significant correlations were found among all variables (ps < 0.001). Sports training types can directly predict academic self-efficacy (β = 0.069, t = 3.155, p < 0.01), further confirming that sports training types can directly predict academic self-efficacy. Moreover, mindfulness, social anxiety, and academic procrastination play a chain mediating role between Artistic sports and academic self-efficacy. These findings highlight the potential value of Artistic sports in enhancing academic self-efficacy and provide practical guidance for education policymakers, school administrators, teachers, parents, and students to promote adolescent academic and psychological health development. It is recommended to enhance the promotion and training of Artistic sports to improve the physical and mental health as well as academic achievements of adolescents.

    Keywords: Artistic sports, Sports Training Types, Five Factor Mindfulness, social anxiety, academic procrastination, Academic self-efficacy

    Received: 02 Jul 2024; Accepted: 30 Dec 2024.

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    * Correspondence: Yanyan Tian, School of Psychology, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, China

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