ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Children and Health
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1639456
The Impact of Water Safety Skills on Primary School Students High-risk Swimming Behaviors: A Moderated Mediation Model
Provisionally accepted
- Hubei Minzu University, Enshi, China
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Introduction: To investigate the relationship between water safety skills and high-risk swimming behaviors and the underlying mechanisms of self-efficacy and water safety knowledge. Methods: Water safety skills, self-efficacy, water safety knowledge, and high-risk swimming behaviors were investigated in 1573 children using a questionnaire. Results: (1) After controlling for gender, age, and grade, there was a significant positive effect of water safety skills on high-risk swimming behaviors (β=0.062, 95%CI[0.037, 0.088], p<0.01); (2) self-efficacy partially mediated the relationship between water safety skills and high-risk swimming behavior (β=0.050, 95%CI[0.039, 0.060], p<0.01); and (3) the mediating role of self-efficacy in the relationship between water safety skills to high-risk swimming behaviors was negatively moderated by knowledge of water safety (β=-0.026, 95%CI[-0.035,-0.016], p<0.01). Conclusion: Self-efficacy mediates between water safety skills and high-risk swimming behavior; water safety knowledge moderates between water safety skills and high-risk swimming behavior.
Keywords: high-risk swimming behavior1, water safety skills2, self-efficacy3, water safetyknowledge4, primary school student5
Received: 02 Jun 2025; Accepted: 03 Sep 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 TAN, Shi, Xie 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: Hui Zhang, Hubei Minzu University, Enshi, China
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