ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Sport Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1637943
This article is part of the Research TopicPsychological Factors in Physical Education and Sport - Volume VIView all 11 articles
The Impact of Online Social Support on Psychological Resilience and Suicidal Ideation Among Sports Specialty Students Under Academic-Training Dual Stress: A Gender-Specific Analysis
Provisionally accepted
Hongyi Zhang
Yansong Wang*- Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China
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Background: Sports specialty students in China face unique "dual stress" from academic demands and athletic training, intensified by cultural values and societal expectations. This stress contributes to elevated suicidal ideation, with limited understanding of how online social support (OSS) and psychological resilience mediate these relationships, particularly across genders. Objective ： To investigate the tripartite relationship among academic-training dual stress, OSS, and suicidal ideation, with psychological resilience as a mediator, and to analyze gender-specific differences.Methods: A sample of 1,460 sports specialty students (60% male, 40% female) completed surveys assessing stress, resilience, OSS, and suicidal ideation. Structural
Keywords: Academic-training dual stress, online social support, psychological resilience, Suicidal Ideation, gender differences
Received: 30 May 2025; Accepted: 04 Aug 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Zhang and Wang. 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: Yansong Wang, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China
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