ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Addictive Behaviors
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1640353
This article is part of the Research TopicSocial Interaction in Cyberspace: Online Gaming, Social Media, and Mental HealthView all 8 articles
The relationship between physical activity and short video addiction among college students: mediating effects of self-control and social anxiety
Provisionally accepted
- Changzhou University, Changzhou, China
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Introduction: Short video addiction has significantly altered college students' learning, living, and entertainment habits, exerting a negative impact on their physical and mental health, which has drawn widespread attention from scholars.Methods: This study surveyed 650 college students using the Physical Activity Level Scale, Self-Control Scale, Adolescent Social Anxiety Scale, and Short Video Addiction Scale through the convenient sampling method to explore the mechanism of physical activity's impact on short video addiction.The results of the study indicate that: (1) physical activity has a significant and negative impact on short video addiction; (2) physical activity influences short video addiction through the mediating effect of self-control; (3) physical activity influences short video addiction through the mediating effect of social anxiety; (4) self-control and social anxiety play a chain mediating role in the impact of physical activity on short video addiction.These findings help researchers and educators better understand the underlying mechanisms of the relationship between physical activity and short video addiction, and provide practical and effective operational recommendations for the prevention and intervention of short video addiction among college students.
Keywords: physical activity, Self-Control, social anxiety, Short Video Addiction, Mediating effect, chain-mediated effects
Received: 03 Jun 2025; Accepted: 29 Aug 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Wang, Wu, Gu and Zhang. 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: Zheng Zhang, Changzhou University, Changzhou, China
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