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October 10, 2025BMC Public HealthOpen Access

The effects of physical exercise on adolescents’ antisocial behavior: the chain-mediated effects of good peer relationships and subjective wellbeing

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CWChaochao WangLLL L LiuXLXiaoqing Liu

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Cross-sectional analysis reveals physical exercise reduces antisocial behavior in adolescents, indicating improvements in peer relationships and subjective wellbeing.

Key Points

  • Physical exercise directly reduces antisocial behaviour, underscoring its preventive role in adolescents' social conduct.
  • Mediation analysis showed positive peer relationships accounted for 30.85% and subjective wellbeing for 14.89% in the exercise-behavior link.
  • The study involved 7,272 adolescents using correlation analysis, OLS regression, and bootstrap-based mediation to validate hypotheses.
  • Benefits of physical exercise were more pronounced among boys, boarding students, and those with supportive parental relationships.

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Wang et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e9435d2d5336d28fb289abhttps://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-24650-8
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