This analysis finds that social support enhances physical self-concepts and resilience in high school athletes, indicating crucial mental health implications.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to verify the causal relationship between social support, physical self-concepts and resilience of sports participating high school students as an approach to improving sports participating high school students’ expectations for their future. Methods: In order to achieve the objectives of this study, a group of sports participating high school students living in C province was set up as a population in 2025 and 341 sports participating high school students were selected by using convenience sampling, and the main research results are as follows. Results: First, social support has a direct effect on physical self-concepts and resilience. Second, physical self-concepts have direct effect on resilience. Third, physical self-concepts have a partial mediation effect between social support and resilience. Conclusion: Combining these findings above, it was inferred that social support has direct effects on physical self-concepts and resilience. Physical self-concepts directly affect resilience and there is a partial mediation effect between social support and resilience.
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