ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Sport Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1663693
This article is part of the Research TopicPhysical Education, Health and Education Innovation-Vol IIIView all 26 articles
A study on the family school and community linkage of improving adolescent physical fitness and health: based on the ANT
Provisionally accepted
- Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
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Guided by Actor-Network Theory (ANT), this study employs policy text analysis, participatory observation, and interviews to examine China's multi-actor social protection network for adolescent physical fitness and health. It finds the network holds potential for promoting adolescent physical fitness but faces challenges (ambiguous actor responsibilities, inadequate resource allocation, outdated perceptions), reveals ANT's translation process (problematization, interessement, enrollment, mobilization) enables building a cohesive alliance to enhance children and adolescents' physical fitness and health, and identifies the linkage mechanism's "Chinese particularities", offering targeted implications for optimizing the collaborative system.
Keywords: Actor-Network Theory, adolescent physical fitness and health, family school and community, Synergetic net, School physical education
Received: 10 Jul 2025; Accepted: 20 Oct 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 WANG, LIU, ZHU, LI and YAO. 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: Duan WANG, wangduan1997@outlook.com
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