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- Title
Relationship Between Mindfulness and Physical Activity in College Students: The Mediating Effect of Eudaimonic Well-Being.
- Authors
Zhang, Zhanjia; He, Zhonghui; Qian, Junwei; Qi, Xin; Tong, Jiajin
- Abstract
Previous research has shown many benefits of mindfulness for physical and psychological health, including its link to such health behaviors as increased physical activity (PA). We re-examined the association between mindfulness and PA to better understand a possible mediating role of eudaimonic well-being in this association, while controlling for participants' age, gender, and affect. We had 738 undergraduate student participants (45.0% females; M age = 19.58 years) complete measures of trait mindfulness, eudaimonic well-being, and PA, and we used age, gender, and affect as covariates in a single-wave assessment. We conducted this mediation analysis with a bootstrapping technique to produce 10,000 resamples. We replicated findings of a significant relationship between mindfulness and enhanced eudaimonic well-being (β = 0.474, p < 0.001), which in turn contributed to increased PA (β = 0.193, p < 0.001). The bootstrapping method indicated a significant indirect effect of eudaimonic well-being (β = 0.092, 95% CI = [0.043, 0.142]) in the relationship between mindfulness and PA through eudaimonic well-being. Thus, eudaimonic well-being may mediate the connection between mindfulness and PA. College administrators should consider incorporating mindfulness into health promotion programs as a means of enhancing college students' well-being and health behaviors.
- Subjects
MINDFULNESS; WELL-being; UNIVERSITY &; college administration; PSYCHOLOGY of college students; AFFECT (Psychology); PHYSICAL activity; UNDERGRADUATES; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; FACTOR analysis; EXERCISE; STUDENT attitudes
- Publication
Perceptual & Motor Skills, 2023, Vol 130, Issue 2, p863
- ISSN
0031-5125
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/00315125221149833