Frontiers in Psychology
Physical activity as a modest behavioral pathway between parental marital conflict and adolescent anxiety: exploring gender differences
Background and objective Parental marital conflict has been consistently associated with adolescent anxiety, but the behavioral correlates that may help explain this association remain insufficiently understood. This study re-examined the association between parental marital conflict and adolescent anxiety and further tested whether physical activity served as a modest statistical mediator and whether gender moderated the association between parental marital conflict and physical activity. Methods A cross-sectional …