ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Sport Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1665603
This article is part of the Research TopicPsychological Factors in Physical Education and Sport - Volume VIView all 26 articles
The Effects of Physical Exercise with Additional Visual Tasks on Vision and Anxiety in Children Aged 10-11 Years
Provisionally accepted
- 1School of Physical Education, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
- 2School of Jewellery, West Yunnan University of Applied Sciences, Dali, China
- 3Soochow University, Suzhou, China
- 4Department of Physical Education and Military Training Jiyang College, Zhejiang A and F University, Hangzhou, China
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Purpose: This study investigated the effects of physical exercise with additional visual tasks on anxiety and visual acuity in children aged 10-11 years, and analyzed the mediating role of visual acuity in this relationship. Methods: Fifth-grade students from an experimental elementary school in Suzhou were selected and randomly assigned into a control group (n=81) and an experimental group (n=80). The experimental group underwent 16 weeks of physical exercise with additional visual tasks, while the control group engaged in regular physical exercise. Uncorrected distance visual acuity (UDVA), kinetic visual acuity (KVA) , and anxiety levels were measured both before and after the experiment. Results: Post-intervention, the experimental group showed significant improvements in left and right eyes UDVA and KVA (P<0.01) and a significant reduction in total anxiety scores (P<0.01). The control group exhibited significant improvements in left and right eyes UDVA (P<0.05), but not in KVA (P>0.05), with a significant reduction in anxiety scores (P<0.01). Significant positive correlations were found between left and right eyes UDVA and KVA, and significant negative correlations between total anxiety scores and both left and right eyes UDVA and KVA. In the experimental group, KVA and left eye UDVA mediated the impact of physical exercise with additional visual tasks on anxiety. Conclusion: Physical exercise with additional visual tasks improved UDVA and KVA in children aged 10-11 and effectively reduced anxiety in fifth-grade students. KVA and left eye UDVA acted as chain mediators in this effect.
Keywords: physical exercise, Visual tasks, Visual Acuity, Anxiety, children aged 10-11
Received: 14 Jul 2025; Accepted: 22 Sep 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Zhu, Wang, Wang, Li, Jiang, Shi, Yin and Ding. 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: Rongbin Yin, yrb@suda.edu.cn
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