ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Health Education and Promotion
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1652474
This article is part of the Research TopicSports, Nutrition and Public Health: Analyzing their Interconnected ImpactsView all 29 articles
Chain-mediated Pathways of Adults Socioeconomic Status Affecting Physical Fitness in Macao: The Role of Motor Skills and Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity
Provisionally accepted
Mingzhe Li1*
Yibo Gao1,2
Zhang Yanfeng1*
Jin He1Xiaoxiao Chen1,3Hejie Zhang1
Xiang Pan1,2
Lupei Jiang1,2Haixia Hu4- 1China Institute of Sport and Health Science, Beijing Sport University, Beijing, China
- 2Juntendo Daigaku - Sakura Campus, Inzai, Japan
- 3Jinzhou Medical University, Jinzhou, China
- 4Weifang Aiudo Teenagers Sport&Health Institut, Weifang, China
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To investigate the relationship between adults' socioeconomic status and physical fitness, and the chain mediation effects of motor skills and moderate to vigorous physical activity on it. Based on the 2020 Macao Special Administrative Region Citizen's Physical Fitness and Health Surveillance data, this study was conducted with 3,695 adults aged 20-59 years, and the data were analyzed using SPSS 29.0 software. The findings showed that 1) family socioeconomic status was positively correlated with physical fitness (p<0.01); 2) motor skills and moderate-to vigorous physical activity mediated the above relationship, and the mediation consisted of three pathways: the separate mediation of motor skills, the separate mediation of moderate--to vigorous physical activity, and the chain mediation of motor skills-moderate--to vigorous physical activity. The findings reveal that family socioeconomic status can influence adult physical fitness through three pathways: motor skills, moderate to vigorous physical activity, and motor skills-moderate-to-vigorous physical activity chain mediation, which is of great theoretical significance for the improvement of adults' physical fitness.
Keywords: Socioeconomic status, Motor Skills, Moderate to physical activity, Physical Fitness, chain mediation effects
Received: 23 Jun 2025; Accepted: 18 Aug 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Li, Gao, Yanfeng, He, Chen, Zhang, Pan, Jiang and Hu. 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:
Mingzhe Li, China Institute of Sport and Health Science, Beijing Sport University, Beijing, China
Zhang Yanfeng, China Institute of Sport and Health Science, Beijing Sport University, Beijing, China
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