Skip to main content

ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychiatry
Sec. Adolescent and Young Adult Psychiatry
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1403471
This article is part of the Research Topic The Interplay of Stress, Health, and Well-Being: Unraveling the Psychological and Physiological Processes View all 21 articles

Correlation Research on Physical Activity and Executive Function in Female College Students with Subclinical Depression

Provisionally accepted
Ping Li Ping Li 1Majed M. Alhumaid Majed M. Alhumaid 2Hai Li Hai Li 3Haiyan Wang Haiyan Wang 4*Shanguang Zhao Shanguang Zhao 5*
  • 1 Second People's Hospital of Neijiang, Neijiang, China
  • 2 King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
  • 3 Neijiang Normal University, Neijiang, Sichuan, China
  • 4 Shanghai Jianqiao University, Shanghai, Shanghai, China
  • 5 Shanghai Maritime University, pudong, Shanghai, China

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon.

    Researchers have found that there may be a correlation between physical activity, executive function, and depression for college students with depression. However, there is limited information available regarding the relationship and interaction between subclinical depression, physical activity, and executive function among college students with subclinical depression. The purpose of this study is to assess the correlation and interaction between subclinical depression, physical activity, and executive function in female college students with subclinical depression. The ActiGraph GT3X was utilized to measure physical activity time, and the colour-word Stroop task was employed to evaluate the executive function of the participants. The findings revealed that female college students with subclinical depression had a significantly lower time for moderate-intensity physical activity compared to healthy female college students. Additionally, the subclinical depression group took significantly longer to complete the colour-word Stroop task compared to the healthy group of female college students. The results of correlation and mediation analyses suggest a negative correlation between BDI-II scores and physical activity time and executive function in female college students with subclinical depression. Moreover, executive function appears to play a partial mediating role in the relationship between physical activity and subclinical depression.

    Keywords: Subclinical depression, physical activity, Executive Function, female, college students

    Received: 19 Mar 2024; Accepted: 06 May 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Li, Alhumaid, Li, Wang and Zhao. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Haiyan Wang, Shanghai Jianqiao University, Shanghai, 201315, Shanghai, China
    Shanguang Zhao, Shanghai Maritime University, pudong, Shanghai, China

    Disclaimer: All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.