The effect of exercise motivation on adolescents’ subjective Well-being: chain mediation of physical activity and Social-emotional competency

Table 4 Bootstrapping direct and indirect effects and 95% confidence intervals (Cl) for the mediation model

Effect	Path	Standardized effect size	Boot 95% CI	Effect ratio
Direct effect	EM→SWB	0.258^***	0.201 to 0.313	63.86
Mediating effect	EM→PA→SWB EM→SEC→SWB EM→PA→SEC→SWB	0.108^***	0.080 to 0.139	26.73
		0.252^***	0.14 to 0.40	62.37
		0.12^***	0.007 to 0.19	29.7
Total mediating effect		0.145^***	0.116 to 0.178	35.89
Total effect		0.404^***	0.358 to 0.446

Note: EM = Exercise Motivation、PA = Physical Activities、SEC = Social-emotional competency、SWB = Subjective well-being; * indicates p < 0.001; effect sizes are based on standardised regression coefficients (β), small effect: β ≥ 0.10, medium effect: β ≥ 0.30, large effect: β ≥ 0.50

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