Effects of Physical Exercise on Mobile Phone Addiction in College Students: The Chain Mediation Effect of Psychological Resilience and Perceived Stress

Zitong Zhao, Shuai Zhao, Qi Wang (), Yiran Zhang and Chunchun Chen
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Zitong Zhao: Business School of Sport, Beijing Sport University, Beijing 100084, China
Shuai Zhao: College of Industry and Commerce, Shandong Management University, Jinan 250357, China
Qi Wang: School of Management, Beijing Union University, Beijing 100101, China
Yiran Zhang: Business School of Sport, Beijing Sport University, Beijing 100084, China
Chunchun Chen: School of Management, Beijing Union University, Beijing 100101, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 23, 1-16

Abstract: Smartphones have become an integral part of people’s daily lives. While bringing convenience, mobile phone addiction caused by overuse of smart phones has become a common phenomenon among college students. The current study aimed to examine the serial mediating role of psychological resilience and perceived stress between physical exercise and mobile phone addiction of college students. Using the PARS-3 scale, CD-RISC-10 scale, PSS-10 scale, and MPA scale, 257 college students were investigated and Structural Equation Model (SEM) was conducted. The results show that: (1) Physical exercise has no significant direct impact on mobile phone addiction. (2) Psychological resilience has a significant mediating effect between physical exercise and mobile phone addiction. But perceived stress does not. (3) Psychological resilience and perceived stress play a chain mediation role. Physical exercise can enhance psychological resilience firstly, thus relieving perceived stress and eventually mitigating mobile phone addiction.

Keywords: physical exercise; psychological resilience; perceived stress; mobile phone addiction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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