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Exercise health belief model mediates the relationship between physical activity and peer support among Chinese college students: A cross-sectional survey

This study explored the influence of the exercise health belief model and peer support on university students’ physical activity PA and clarified the related mechanism. Three hundred and thirty-six healthy university students (aged 19.4 ± 1.3 years, 166 male and 170 female) from Sichuan University o...

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Autores principales: Sheng, Jiazhi, Gong, Lamei, Zhou, Jian
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9940899/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36814667
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1103109
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author Sheng, Jiazhi
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description This study explored the influence of the exercise health belief model and peer support on university students’ physical activity PA and clarified the related mechanism. Three hundred and thirty-six healthy university students (aged 19.4 ± 1.3 years, 166 male and 170 female) from Sichuan University of Arts and Science in China were evaluated by the peer support scale, the health belief model scale for exercise, and the physical activity scale (short volume). The results showed that the male students’ exercise self-efficacy and PA were markedly higher than female university students. Peer support was positively correlated with perceived benefits, exercise self-efficacy, perceived severity, and cues to action, and was adversely associated with perceived objective and subjective barriers. PA was positively correlated with perceived benefits and exercise self-efficacy, and negatively correlated with perceived objective and subjective barriers. Among the components of the exercise health belief model, only exercise self-efficacy was suitable for constructing a structural equation model (SEM) with peer support and PA. The analysis showed that the predictive effect of exercise self-efficacy on PA was more significant than peer support, and exercise self-efficacy played a critical intermediary role. It is worth noting that, in the grouping model, the effect of male college students’ exercise self-efficacy on PA was greater than that of female students, and the model fit of male peer support was better than that of female students. Although the impact of peer support on PA was less than that of exercise self-efficacy and the direct effect of peer support was less than the indirect effect, the impact of peer support on the PA of female university students was higher than that of male university students. This study revealed the impact of exercise self-efficacy and peer support on university students’ PA and suggested that exercise self-efficacy is the main path to promoting university students’ PA, followed by peer support. Peer support could affect university students’ PA not only through direct effects but also through indirect effects. This study also suggested that female university students’ peer support has a higher impact on PA than male students. Therefore, when formulating physical exercise courses in the future, it is necessary to give more peer support to female university students to compensate for their low exercise self-efficacy.
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spelling pubmed-99408992023-02-21 Exercise health belief model mediates the relationship between physical activity and peer support among Chinese college students: A cross-sectional survey Sheng, Jiazhi Gong, Lamei Zhou, Jian Front Psychol Psychology This study explored the influence of the exercise health belief model and peer support on university students’ physical activity PA and clarified the related mechanism. Three hundred and thirty-six healthy university students (aged 19.4 ± 1.3 years, 166 male and 170 female) from Sichuan University of Arts and Science in China were evaluated by the peer support scale, the health belief model scale for exercise, and the physical activity scale (short volume). The results showed that the male students’ exercise self-efficacy and PA were markedly higher than female university students. Peer support was positively correlated with perceived benefits, exercise self-efficacy, perceived severity, and cues to action, and was adversely associated with perceived objective and subjective barriers. PA was positively correlated with perceived benefits and exercise self-efficacy, and negatively correlated with perceived objective and subjective barriers. Among the components of the exercise health belief model, only exercise self-efficacy was suitable for constructing a structural equation model (SEM) with peer support and PA. The analysis showed that the predictive effect of exercise self-efficacy on PA was more significant than peer support, and exercise self-efficacy played a critical intermediary role. It is worth noting that, in the grouping model, the effect of male college students’ exercise self-efficacy on PA was greater than that of female students, and the model fit of male peer support was better than that of female students. Although the impact of peer support on PA was less than that of exercise self-efficacy and the direct effect of peer support was less than the indirect effect, the impact of peer support on the PA of female university students was higher than that of male university students. This study revealed the impact of exercise self-efficacy and peer support on university students’ PA and suggested that exercise self-efficacy is the main path to promoting university students’ PA, followed by peer support. Peer support could affect university students’ PA not only through direct effects but also through indirect effects. This study also suggested that female university students’ peer support has a higher impact on PA than male students. Therefore, when formulating physical exercise courses in the future, it is necessary to give more peer support to female university students to compensate for their low exercise self-efficacy. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-02-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9940899/ /pubmed/36814667 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1103109 Text en Copyright © 2023 Sheng, Gong and Zhou. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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) and the copyright owner(s) 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.
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Sheng, Jiazhi
Gong, Lamei
Zhou, Jian
Exercise health belief model mediates the relationship between physical activity and peer support among Chinese college students: A cross-sectional survey
title Exercise health belief model mediates the relationship between physical activity and peer support among Chinese college students: A cross-sectional survey
title_full Exercise health belief model mediates the relationship between physical activity and peer support among Chinese college students: A cross-sectional survey
title_fullStr Exercise health belief model mediates the relationship between physical activity and peer support among Chinese college students: A cross-sectional survey
title_full_unstemmed Exercise health belief model mediates the relationship between physical activity and peer support among Chinese college students: A cross-sectional survey
title_short Exercise health belief model mediates the relationship between physical activity and peer support among Chinese college students: A cross-sectional survey
title_sort exercise health belief model mediates the relationship between physical activity and peer support among chinese college students: a cross-sectional survey
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9940899/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36814667
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1103109
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