Table 3.
The relationship between physical exercise and social anxiety: moderated mediating effect
| Outcome | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social anxiety | Peer relationships | Social anxiety | Peer relationships | |||||
| Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 3 | Model 4 | |||||
| b | t | b | t | b | t | b | t | |
| Predictors | ||||||||
| Gender | 0.06 | 0.99 | -0.07 | -1.19 | 0.03 | 0.49 | 0.09 | 1.57 |
| Education level | -0.02 | -0.48 | -0.07 | -1.84 | -0.05 | -1.51 | -0.09 | -2.45* |
| Physical exercise | -0.15 | -4.63*** | 0.09 | 2.63** | -0.11 | -3.84*** | -0.02 | -0.51 |
| Peer relationships | -0.47 | -17.13*** | ||||||
| Flow experience | 0.42 | 13.87*** | ||||||
| Physical exercise * flow experience | 0.11 | 3.39** | ||||||
| R2 | 0.16 | 0.13 | 0.49 | 0.41 | ||||
| ΔR2 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.24 | 0.17 | ||||
| F | 8.75*** | 5.72*** | 81.73*** | 42.58*** | ||||
*** p < 0.001, ** p < 0.01