Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between physical activity and academic stress in secondary students. Furthermore, this study aims to examine the mediated effects of resilience on the relationship between physical activity and academic stress. This study is expected to present the ways and grounds for the necessity of improving mental health and academic stress as well as building resilience.BR Method: The participants of this study were 506 middle and high school students recruited using convenience sampling, which is a non-probability sampling to complete the questionnaire. For data analysis, PASW Statistic 20.0, IBM SPSS 25.0, and AMOS 25.0 version program were used to conduct frequency analysis, descriptive statistics, reliability analysis, correlation analysis, independent sample t-test, one-way ANOVA, and multiple regression analysis.BR Results: First, physical activity was significantly influenced to resilience, social support seeking, and problem solving of stress-coping strategy. Second, in terms of the mediated effects of resilience on the relationship between physical activity and academic stress, the indirect effect of physical activity on academic stress through resilience was statistically significant. Lastly, as the result of mediated effects on resilience between physical activity and academic stress of the middle and high school students, the significant mediated effects were revealed.BR Conclusion: Since the high resilience of the middle and high school students affects academic stress, it is necessary to provide them with opportunities to increase their resilience in order to reduce academic stress. In addition, efforts to increase physical activity are required. Through this, it is judged that increasing resilience can help release the level of academic stress as a result.

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