Abstract
Purpose: Discuss the relationship among college students’ media internalized pressure, social physique anxiety, weight control self-efficacy, and sports participation in providing a reference for promoting college students to develop healthy and confident living habits.Methods: Take Southwest University in China as the object, select the subjects by stratified random sampling, and process the data with SPSS19.0 and AMOS21.0 statistical software.Results: (1) Media internalized pressure is positively correlated with social physique anxiety, weight control self-efficacy, and sports participation; social physique anxiety is significantly positively correlated with weight control self-efficacy and sports participation, and weight control self-efficacy is significantly positively correlated with sports participation; (2) media internalized pressure has a direct effect on sports participation (ES = 0.456), and social physique anxiety (ES = 0.136) and weight control self-efficacy (ES = 0.102) play significant mediating roles in the relationship between media internalized pressure and sports participation, respectively; the chained mediating force of social physique anxiety and weight control self-efficacy also reaches a significant level (ES = 0.027).Conclusion: Media internalized pressure can influence college students’ sports participation through the direct path as well as indirect paths such as social physique anxiety, the intermediary effect of weight control self-efficacy, and chained intermediary effect of social physique anxiety–weight control self-efficacy, and social physique anxiety is another key factor affecting college students’ sports participation except media internalized pressure.
Highlights
Mass media refers to newspapers, magazines, television, radio, movies, books, audio-visual products, and the Internet and other media to spread social and cultural information (Wang et al, 2016)
The results showed that boys scored higher than girls in three aspects of dietary self-efficacy, self-efficiency for exercise, and sports participation, but girls scored higher than boys in five aspects of media internalization, media pressure, the worry about others’ negative evaluation, the discomfort with self-physical performance, and the anxiety about the social comparison
The results showed that media internalized pressure, social physique anxiety, weight control self-efficacy, and sports participation were positively correlated
Summary
Mass media refers to newspapers, magazines, television, radio, movies, books, audio-visual products, and the Internet and other media to spread social and cultural information (Wang et al, 2016). Some scholars have explored the psychology of college students through the mass media and found that the mass media tends to portray the “ideal body shape” of male and female students according to their own position, and college students living in this sexually objectified environment are prone to selfobjectification. They unconsciously accept this “inculcation” and transform it into their own thoughts through the process of internalization, examining their own bodies from the perspective of this objectification and appearing to self-objectify; media internalized pressure is generated (Liang et al, 2020; Yang et al, 2020)
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