The Relationship between Group Exercise Volume and Social Withdrawal Subcategories: the Mediating Role of Psychological Resilience_Vol. 2 No. 4 (JMPE 2025)_Journal of Medicine and Physical Education (ISSN: 3005-5806)

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The Relationship between Group Exercise Volume and Social Withdrawal Subcategories: the Mediating Role of Psychological Resilience

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.62517/jmpe.202518403

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Dongyang Tan

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Institute of Physical Education, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Abstract

This study investigated the relationship between the amount of group exercise and the three subcategories of social withdrawal (shy withdrawal, social apathy, and social avoidance) in a group of adolescents and further validated the mediating role of psychological resilience in this context. Based on a questionnaire survey of 534 secondary school students aged 13 to 18 years old, data were analyzed using multiple regression and structural equation modeling. The results showed that group exercise volume significantly and positively predicted psychological flexibility and cognitive reappraisal, and negatively predicted three kinds of social withdrawal behaviors, and psychological flexibility played a partial mediating effect between group exercise volume and social withdrawal. Among them, the mediating effects on shy withdrawal and social avoidance were more significant, while the effects on social apathy were mainly realized through the direct path. Further analysis revealed that grade level and gender had moderating effects in the path model, with middle school students and girls' psychological resilience showing stronger moderating effects in influencing social withdrawal. Based on the refinement of the types of social withdrawal behaviors, this study reveals the intrinsic mechanism of group exercise in promoting adolescents' psychological resilience and social adaptation, which enriches the perspective of the cross-study of educational psychology and physical education and provides empirical references for adolescent psychological interventions and school physical education curricula.

Keywords

Group Exercise; Social Withdrawal; Psychological Resilience; Adolescents; Mediating Effect

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