Relationships between vigorous physical activity and psychological complaints in adolescents: findings from 240,951 participants
Mingjun Xia, Ping Wang, Bin Feng, Qingru Zhang, Jin Yan · 2026
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Mingjun Xia, Ping Wang, Bin Feng, Qingru Zhang, and Jin Yan sift, in a 2026 study, survey answers from nearly a quarter of a million teenagers. They ask how hard exercise relates to psychological complaints. The data come from a school health survey across many countries, covering eleven-, thirteen-, and fifteen-year-olds. Four complaints were tracked: feeling low, irritability, nervousness, and sleep trouble, set against how often the students exercised until breathless.
The pattern refuses to simplify. Daily vigorous activity came with higher odds of feeling low, by about a fifth, and slightly higher irritability. The same daily activity lowered the odds of nervousness by about a tenth. Sleep trouble showed no link at all. The authors stress that a snapshot survey cannot say which way cause runs: distress may drive exercise as easily as exercise feeds distress. They call for studies that follow teenagers over time.
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| CREATOR | Mingjun Xia, Ping Wang, Bin Feng, Qingru Zhang, Jin Yan |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |