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Front. Public Health
Sec. Occupational Health and Safety
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1421319
This article is part of the Research Topic Psychological Factors in Physical Education and Sport - Volume V View all 21 articles
Relationship between growth mindset and self-rated health in Chinese college teachers: Sequential mediating effect of health self-efficacy and physical exercise
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Tao Yu 1*
Lidong He 1 Hu Ying 1
Jie Liu 1 Yuzhen Wu 1 Jiayuan Li 2 Yaxing Guo 3 Yanjun Chen 4 Xiaofu Pan 1*- 1 Southwest University, Chongqing, China
- 2 Sichuan International Studies University, Chongqing, China
- 3 Minzu University of China, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
- 4 Chongqing Vocational Institute of Engineering, Chongqing, China
Background: Chinese college teachers' health issues have become increasingly significant, making it crucial to promote their physical health. Based on self-regulation theory, this study aims to explore the relationship and underlying mechanisms between Chinese college teachers' growth mindset of health and their self-rated health.The study involved 456 Chinese college teachers (213 males, 243 females) who filled out a questionnaire measuring their growth mindset of health, health self-efficacy, physical exercise, and self-rated health.The correlation analysis revealed positive links among Chinese college teachers' growth mindset of health, health self-efficacy, physical exercise, and self-rated health. Further regression analysis indicated that their growth mindset of health positively influenced self-rated health, mediated by health self-efficacy and physical exercise.This study discovered a positive link between Chinese college teachers' growth mindset of health and their self-rated health. It also emphasized the sequential mediating effect of health selfefficacy and physical exercise in this correlation, offering theoretical grounding and valuable insights for promoting college teachers' physical health.
Keywords: growth mindset, Health self-efficacy, physical exercise, self-rated health, selfregulation theory
Received: 22 Apr 2024; Accepted: 29 Jan 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Yu, He, Ying, Liu, Wu, Li, Guo, Chen and Pan. 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:
Tao Yu, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
Xiaofu Pan, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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