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Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Health Education and Promotion
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1443489
This article is part of the Research Topic Lifelong Influence of Sports and Physical Activity View all 15 articles

Relationship between Chinese college students' attitude to physical exercise and psychological capital: the mediating effects of self-control and gender

Provisionally accepted
Xin n. Li Xin n. Li 1,2Lei Cui Lei Cui 1Qi-Qi Shen Qi-Qi Shen 1Rui Luo Rui Luo 3Min Liu Min Liu 4*
  • 1 College of Physical Education and Sports Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, Beijing, China
  • 2 Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
  • 3 China University of Labor Relations, Beijing, China
  • 4 Qufu Normal University, Qufu, Shandong Province, China

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    Objective: To explore the impact of attitudes towards physical exercise on college students' psychological capital and its mechanism of action, providing new pathways and scientific evidence for enhancing psychological capital among college students.Methods: A total of 519 college students (mean age: 19.95±1.34) were surveyed using a questionnaire.Results: 1) Attitudes towards physical exercise have a significant direct predictive effect on college students' psychological capital; 2) Attitudes towards physical exercise can indirectly predict psychological capital through the mediating role of self-control; 3) The influence of attitudes towards physical exercise on self-control is moderated by gender, with a greater impact on female college students compared to male students.Conclusion: 1) This study investigated the mechanism by which attitudes towards physical exercise influence psychological capital through self-control and the gender differences; 2) The study revealed the positive role of psychological capital, with a significant predictive effect of attitudes towards physical exercise on college students' psychological capital (B=0.46, p<0.001), and identified the reasons for gender differences, with attitudes towards physical exercise having a stronger promoting effect on self-control in female college students (B=0.26, t=3.80, p<0.001). It provides guiding suggestions for enhancing psychological capital by fostering attitudes towards physical exercise among college students.

    Keywords: Attitude towards physical exercises, Psychological Capital, Self-Control, gender, college students

    Received: 04 Jun 2024; Accepted: 17 Oct 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Li, Cui, Shen, Luo and Liu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Min Liu, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, 273165, Shandong Province, China

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