Data underlying the research of: The Impact of Fitness Apps on College Students’ Social Anxiety in the New Media Era

With the arrival of the new media era, the popularity of campus sports and fitness apps has further increased. How to use fitness apps to solve the problem of college students' social anxiety will become a hot research topic. This study conducts a relevant questionnaire survey of the attachment to fitness apps, physical exercise self-efficiency, the willingness to engage in exercise and social anxiety among college students, and applies a structural equation model to analyse the influence path of fitness app use on college student’s social anxiety. The study shows that first, the level of attachment to fitness apps not only influences the willingness to engage in exercise and exercise self-efficacy but also influences anxiety and emotions. Second, the attachment to fitness apps has a strong positive impact on exercise, while the willingness to engage in exercise influences social relationships positively in an indirect way, forming a mediation effect. Third, physical exercise self-efficacy is influenced by exercise willingness; thus, the exercise will, as an intermediary, indirectly affect social anxiety. Therefore, countermeasures and other suggestions are put forward to reduce the level of social anxiety among college students by using fitness apps, which provides a new research idea for improving the willingness to engage in exercise and reducing the degree of social anxiety.

伴随新媒体时代的到来，校园体育健身应用的普及度进一步提升。如何借助健身应用破解大学生社交焦虑（Social Anxiety）难题，将成为热门研究议题。本研究针对大学生群体开展了一项相关问卷调查，内容涵盖健身应用依恋（Attachment to Fitness Apps）、运动自我效能感（Physical Exercise Self-Efficacy）、运动参与意愿（Willingness to Engage in Exercise）与社交焦虑，并采用结构方程模型（Structural Equation Model, SEM）分析健身应用使用对大学生社交焦虑的影响路径。研究结果显示：其一，健身应用依恋水平不仅对运动参与意愿与运动自我效能感存在显著影响，同时也会作用于焦虑情绪；其二，健身应用依恋对运动参与具有显著正向影响，而运动参与意愿可通过间接路径对社交关系产生正向作用，形成中介效应（Mediation Effect）；其三，运动自我效能感受运动参与意愿的影响，因此运动意愿可作为中介变量间接作用于社交焦虑。据此，本研究提出依托健身应用降低大学生社交焦虑水平的对策建议，为提升大学生运动参与意愿、缓解社交焦虑程度提供了全新的研究思路。