Effects of sports on school adaptability, resilience and cell phone addiction tendency of high school students.

Background: Sport help promote healthy physical and mental development of high school students. To date, there have been few studies on the effect of sport on school adaptability, resilience and cell phone addiction tendency of high school students.

Aim: To explore the effects of sports on school adaptability, resilience and cell phone addiction of high school students.

Methods: A stratified random sampling method was used to select 600 students from two high schools in Lhasa, and Physical Activity Rating Scale, School Adjustment Scale for High School Students, Chinese Adolescents Resilience Scale, and Mobile Phone Addiction Index were used for field questionnaire survey.

Results: Sport was positively correlated with school adaptability and resilience ( < 0.01), school adaptability was positively correlated with resilience ( < 0.01) and cell phone addiction was negatively correlated with sports, school adaptability and resilience ( < 0.01). The direct effect of sport on cell phone addiction was significant ( < 0.001), accounting for 20.51% of the total effect. The mediating effect of school adaptability on sport and cell phone addiction was significant ( < 0.001), accounting for 17.38% and 35.36% of the total effect value, respectively. School adjustment and resilience had a significant chain-mediated effect on sport and cell phone addiction ( < 0.001), accounting for 26.75% of the total effect.

Conclusion: Sport affected the cell phone addiction tendency of senior high school students through the mediating effect of school adaptability and resilience, and through the chain mediation effect of both.