Li, Changqing, Hu, Yanbo and Ren, Kai (2022) Physical activity and academic procrastination among Chinese university students: a parallel mediation model of self-control and self-efficacy. Health Behavior, Chronic Disease and Health Promotion, 19 (10). pp. 1-9. ISSN 1660-4601
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Abstract / Description
Previous studies have suggested that physical activity may decrease academic procrastination; however, few studies have explored the underlying mechanisms of how physical activity exerts an effect on academic procrastination. This study aimed to examine the mediating effects of self-control and self-efficacy in the relationship between physical activity and academic procrastination among Chinese university students.
Methods:
A cross-sectional design was used in this study. The sample comprised 564 university students from a university in Zhejiang, China. The physical activity rating scale-3 (PARS-3), self-control scale (SCS), generalized self-efficacy scale (GSES), and procrastination assessment scale-students (PASS) were used to investigate university students’ physical activity, self-control, self-efficacy, and academic procrastination respectively. The Percentile-Bootstrap technique was performed to examine the mediating effects of self-control and self-efficacy on the association between physical activity and academic procrastination.
Results:
Physical activity significantly predicted higher levels of self-control and self-efficacy, as well as lower levels of academic procrastination. Self-control and self-efficacy were significant mediators between physical activity and academic procrastination.
Conclusion:
This study indicated that physical activity interventions targeting the improvement of self-control and self-efficacy may reduce academic procrastination in university students.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | physical activity; self-control; self-efficacy; academic procrastination; parallel mediation model |
Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology 300 Social sciences > 370 Education 700 The arts; fine & decorative arts > 790 Recreational & performing arts |
Department: | School of Social Sciences and Professions |
Depositing User: | Yanbo Hu |
Date Deposited: | 16 May 2022 08:29 |
Last Modified: | 07 Dec 2022 14:36 |
URI: | https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/id/eprint/7622 |
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