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November 21, 2025Frontiers in PsychologyOpen Access

Relationships among anxiety, psychological resilience, and physical activity in university students: variable-centred and person-centred perspectives

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YYYuqing YuanJYJing YangWHWenying Huang

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Overview

Cross-sectional study shows psychological resilience mediates the relationship between anxiety and physical activity in college students, suggesting tailored intervention strategies.

Key Points

  • This research investigates the relationships among anxiety, psychological resilience, and physical activity in university students.
  • Cross-sectional study design with 1,436 university students
  • Data collected using GAD-7, CD-RISC-10, and PARS-3
  • Mediation effect analysis conducted with Bootstrap methods
  • Latent profile analysis used to identify anxiety and resilience typologies
  • Anxiety negatively associated with physical activity (β = -0.307)
  • Resilience positively correlated with physical activity (β = 0.178)
  • Psychological resilience mediates the anxiety-physical activity relationship, accounting for 24% of the total effect
  • Three distinct profiles identified: High Anxiety-Low Resilience, Moderate Anxiety-Moderate Resilience, Low Anxiety-High Resilience

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Yuan et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6924e3e6c0ce034ddc34eb02https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1694344
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