A cross-sectional study of the association between physical activity and depressive symptoms among adolescents in southwest China stratified by parental absence: the mediating role of insomnia and the moderating role of resilience.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study explored the mechanisms by which physical activity was associated with depressive symptoms in multi-ethnic (Han, Yi and Tibetan) adolescents in southwest China. The mediating role of insomnia in the association of physical activity with depressive symptoms, the moderating role of resilience in this mediation model and the moderating role of parental absence in the moderated mediation model were also examined.

Design

A cross-sectional survey.

Setting

In southwest China (Sichuan Province and Tibet Autonomous Region).

Participants

3195 adolescents from a school-based survey conducted between April and October 2020.

Methods

There were 3143 valid samples in this study (47.2% males with mean age=12.88±1.68 years). Structural equation mode

SUBMITTER: Zhang M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11409347 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature