The Relationship between College Students’ Understanding of Sports Safety Knowledge, Perceived Importance of Safety Education and Accident Prevention Behaviors

Key Points

• To analyze how college students' understanding of sports safety knowledge affects accident prevention behaviors, mediated by their perception of safety education importance.
• Involved 1062 college students from a sports safety survey.
• Data analysis used IBM SPSS 28.0 for descriptive statistics, exploratory factor analysis, and reliability coefficients.
• Conducted independent t-tests and ANOVA to assess differences based on background variables, and used SPSS PROCESS Macro for mediation analysis.
• Significant differences were found in safety knowledge understanding, education importance perception, and accident prevention behaviors based on background variables.
• Understanding of sports safety knowledge had a positive influence on the perceived importance of safety education and accident prevention behaviors.
• The indirect effect was strongest in the group with lower athletic ability, indicating varied impacts based on athletic skill levels.