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Article

Using Structural Equation Modeling to Examine Pathways between Physical Activity and Sleep Quality among Chinese TikTok Users

by
Xing Zhang
1,
Siyuan Feng
2,
Rui Peng
3 and
Hansen Li
4,*
1
Department of Basketball and Volleyball, Chengdu Sport University, Chengdu 610041, China
2
Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
3
Department of Chemistry, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 0B8, Canada
4
Institute of Sports Science, College of Physical Education, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(9), 5142; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095142
Submission received: 17 March 2022 / Revised: 17 April 2022 / Accepted: 21 April 2022 / Published: 23 April 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue TikTok and Public Health)
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Abstract

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TikTok, the most popular social media, brings various benefits to nowadays living. However, the problematic use of TikTok has also elicited a range of health problems, such as sleep problems. Physical activity (PA) appears to play a protective role in the problematic use of TikTok and its health consequences, but the pathways between PA and sleep health are understudied. Therefore, we aimed to propose a framework to check whether PA can benefit the sleep health of TikTok users by reducing bedtime delays for TikTok. Stress and mental health issues were also considered as they are potential mediators between PA and sleep health and may also influence the problematic use of smartphones. A cross-sectional investigation that involved 660 Chinese TikTok users was conducted in April 2021. The volume of PA, perceived stress (PSS-10), depression (PHQ-9), anxiety (GAD-7), bedtime delay for TikTok use, and sleep quality (PSQI) were investigated through an online questionnaire survey. Structural equation modeling was employed to examine pathways from PA to sleep quality through stress, mental health issues (depression and anxiety), and bedtime delay for TikTok. We found that PA exerted a significant effect on sleep quality through indirect pathways (β = −0.056, p = 0.001). Stress was a critical mediator of all indirect pathways, and the pathway mediated by stress and mental health issues made a major contribution to the total effect (β = −0.048, p = 0.002). The identified pathways mediated by bedtime delay for TikTok were relatively weak but significant. PA showed a distinct effect on bedtime delay for TikTok through stress and mental health issues (β = −0.043, p = 0.001). In conclusion, our framework highlights some pathways to understanding the benefits of PA on TikTok users’ sleep quality. Future research is warranted to explore extra indirect pathways and re-examine the causal relationships between variables.

1. Introduction

Sleep health is critical for daily living. Worldwide, more than 100 million people are suffering from sleep problems [1,2,3] due to diseases, emotional issues, and fast-changing schedules that disrupt normal circadian rhythms [4,5,6]. Nowadays, excessive social media usage is assumed to cause sleeping problems, especially in younger generations [7,8,9].
With the rise of short videos, a platform named TikTok provides convenient video editing tools for creators and offers viewers customized videos based on their preferences. Thus, TikTok has become extremely popular and attracted billions of users worldwide [10]. Some governments even employ TikTok to deliver public information [11]. Although TikTok contributes to social communication and entertainment, its dark side needs our attention. Some studies have suggested the impacts associated with the dark side, including eating disorders [12] and violence [12]. Addictive or problematic use of TikTok is a major concern [13,14], especially the usage at night, which has threatened the sleep health of the public [15].
Physical activity (PA) is a promising method to cope with the addictive or problematic use of smartphones [16,17], which may also help reduce the addictive or problematic use of TikTok. It is reported that adolescents with higher levels of physical activity tend to have lower stress, less problematic internet use, and better sleep [18], which indicates a possible role of daily PA in benefiting TikTok users.
PA is well known to positively impact human health. Aside from the direct impact, previous studies on the general public have identified various mediators that contribute to indirect impacts. Based on the above clues, the problematic use of TikTok may also be a mediator that helps realize the indirect impacts. Therefore, the current study aimed to propose and examine a framework in which PA reduces the overuse of TikTok at nighttime and improves sleep conditions. This framework may help explore some pathways from PA to sleep health among TikTok users. Given the multiple potential mediators and their interaction, we tried to develop the framework based on the following clues.

2. Conceptual Framework

PA has a range of benefits on human health, including reducing stress, mental health issues, problematic behaviors, and sleep problems. Negative associations have been often observed between physical activity and stress [19]. Further, controlled trials have evidenced that PA can reduce stress [20], possibly by inhibiting the production of stress hormones [21]. Similar findings have also been obtained for anxiety and depression among children, adolescents, and adults [22,23], making PA a potential non-drug therapy for the two typical mental health issues [24]. PA may also reduce problematic behaviors such as smartphone addiction and drug abuse [16,25], which can be related to the regulation of the dopamine cycle [26]. Moreover, numerous studies have collectively shown that both acute and long-term exercise could benefit sleep quality [27,28].
Stress, anxiety, and depression are three highly related variables harmful to sleep health. Specifically, stress can lead to sleep disorder by activating the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal system [29]; depression was usually regarded as a risk factor for developing insomnia [30]; and anxiety symptom was found to prolong sleep onset latency and shorten the duration of total sleep time [31]. These clues may indicate the mediatory roles of stress, anxiety, and depression that link PA and sleep health. Besides, studies have explored their potential relationships. In a sense, anxiety and depression can be induced by stress, as stress can negatively influence medial prefrontal cortex functions and alter immune functions [32,33].
On the other hand, stress, anxiety, and depression are possible causes of problematic behaviors, such as problematic alcohol use [34]. Chiu [35] has reported that emotional stresses had positive predictive power for smartphone addiction. This may be because external factors like stress can contribute to the development of addictions [36,37,38]. Depression and anxiety may play similar roles. Some clues have also indicated that mental health issues are positively associated with problematic smartphone use [39]. It is assumed that mental health issues may decrease individuals’ ability to suppress and control undesired behaviors [16,40], which implies the negative role of mental health issues on problematic smartphone use. For these reasons, some studies have treated depression and anxiety as predictors of smartphone use [41,42]. A previous study has found that stress, depression, and anxiety are associated with problematic internet use, and coping stress was a reason for adolescents to use the internet [43]. It is assumed that escaping poor living conditions under stress is a reason for problematic internet usage [44].
Nowadays, over 99% of internet access is realized via smartphones in China, and 88.3% of the total internet usage was attributed to short video watching [45]. Therefore, the TikTok issue can be regarded as part of internet and smartphone issues. Like other users who resort to the internet and smartphone for escaping stressors in daily living, TikTok users may also watch short videos for stress reduction purposes. This recreation appears to have nothing harmful. However, overattachment to TikTok can be very common and negative, which appears to be a general problem of smartphone recreation [46]. Wang and Scherr [14] have highlighted that TikTok watching is a threat to the sleep health of Chinese users. Some previous problematic smartphone issues may also present for TikTok users, for example, bedtime delay [47,48]. Bedtime delay refers to the case that people automatically sleep later than they want. Bedtime delay for TikTok is regarded as a problematic and even addictive behavior that threatens sleep health [10,15].
The role of PA in reducing the problematic use of smartphones has received more attention [16,17]. Park [18] reported that adolescents with higher levels of PA are likely to feel less stress, perform less problematic internet use, and have better sleep. These clues may indicate the chance of PA in reducing bedtime delay for TikTok and improving sleep quality. To explore the potential pathways linking PA, bedtime delay, and sleep quality, we developed the following framework (Figure 1) based on the above theoretical pathways between the core variables (PA, stress, mental health issues, bedtime delay for TikTok, sleep quality). Moreover, we also included gender and age as control variables because they may affect PA participation [49], sensitivity to stress and mental health issues [50,51], usage of social media or networks [52,53], and sleep quality [54,55].

3. Materials and Methods

3.1. Procedure and Participants

We conducted our cross-sectional investigation via "WeChat" from 20–22 April 2021. First, we recruited 50 students from Chengdu Sport University (n = 25) and Southwest University volunteers (n = 25) to help deliver our recruiting message through their known online groups. We also used a snowball method to kindly ask people who received our message to call for participation via their social circle. To encourage participation and maximize the response rate, we offered 8 RMB as an award for participation.
Participants were required to participate using a WeChat account linked to their personal legal identity, and their device and IP address were monitored so that every person could only participate once. Meanwhile, we employed the quality verification system empowered by Wenjuanxing Co., Ltd. (Chansha, China) to identify and eliminate questionnaires with random answers.
Eventually, 1148 participants signed the written consent and submitted the questionnaire. Thereafter, questionnaires with unfinished items (n = 135) and identical answers (n = 26) were excluded. Moreover, 327 volunteers who used TikTok less than 60 min a day in the most recent month were excluded. Eventually, 660 valid questionnaires were included in the analysis. The study was approved and supervised by the Ethics Review Board of Southwest University, China.

3.2. Measures

3.2.1. Sleep Quality

Sleep quality was measured using a validated Chinese version of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) [56]. This instrument contains 19 self-rated items grouped into seven quality domains: subjective sleep quality, sleep latency, sleep duration, habitual sleep efficiency, sleep disturbances, use of sleeping medication, and daytime dysfunction. Every domain has a score from 0 to 3. The total score of PSQI ranges from 0 to 21. A higher score indicates worse sleep quality.

3.2.2. Stress

Stress was measured using a validated Chinese version of the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10) [57]. The 10-item version (PSS-10) consists of six negative and four positive items. The negative element is intended to assess lack of control and negative affective reactions, while the positive aspect measures the ability to cope with existing stressors. Each item is rated on a five-point scale from 0 = never to 4 = very often, covering the preceding month.

3.2.3. Depression

Depression was measured using a Chinese version of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) [58], and its reliability and validity have been validated in the general population [58,59]. The PHQ-9 consists of nine questions based on the nine DSM-IV criteria for a major depressive episode. Each of the questions asks patients to select the frequency of the depressive symptoms they experienced in the two weeks before survey administration. Scores for each item range from 0, not at all, to 3, nearly every day. Scores between 10 and 14 indicate a moderate level of depressive symptoms, scores between 15 and 19 indicate moderately severe depression, and scores 20 and above indicate severe major depression.

3.2.4. Anxiety

Anxiety was measured using a validated Chinese version of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7) [60]. The scale is a 7-item self-rating instrument. Each item described one of the typical symptoms of GAD and was evaluated by the frequency in which that symptom emerged over the last two weeks: 0 = Not at all, 1 = Several days, 2 = More than half the days, and 3 = Nearly every day.

3.2.5. Physical Activity

Physical activity was measured by frequency and intensity and formulated as the following questions respectively:
Frequency: “How often did you do physical activity last month?” A 7-point Likert was used to collect answers, where 1 = once per week or less, 7 = almost every day.
Duration: "Describe the average duration of your physical activity in last month?” Answers were collected in 7 categories: 1 = less than 15 min, 2 = 15 to 30 min, 3 = 30 to 45 min, 4 = 45 to 60 min, 5 = 60 to 75 min, 6 = 75 to 90 min, and 7 = more than 90 min.
The product of the frequency and duration, which ranged between 1 and 49, was treated as a variable to indicate the volume of PA [61].

3.2.6. Bedtime Delay for TikTok

Bedtime delay for TikTok was evaluated via frequency and duration of the event [48], and the questions were as follow:
Frequency: “In the last month, how often did your bedtime delay due to automatically using TikTok?” A 7-point Likert was used to collect answers, where 1 = never, 7 = almost every day.
Duration: “In the last month, how long did you usually bedtime delay for TikTok every time?” Answers were collected in 7 categories: 1 = less than 15 min, 2 = 15 to 30 min, 3 = 30 to 45 min, 4 = 45 to 60 min, 5 = 60 to 75 min, 6 = 75 to 90 min, and 7 = more than 90 min.

3.3. Statistical Analysis

3.3.1. Internal Reliabilities of Instruments

Internal reliabilities of the measuring questionnaires were analyzed with Cronbach’s alpha. Cronbach’s alpha greater than 0.70 was considered acceptable [62].

3.3.2. Structural Equations Modeling

Structural equation modeling (SEM) was employed to examine the pathways of the conceptual model [63], and the maximum-likelihood method was applied for the asymptotically unbiased, consistent, and efficient estimators [64]. The direct and indirect effects among the conceptual model were analyzed via the bootstrap method (5000 times sampling and 95% confidence interval) [65]. The goodness of fitting was assessed by the following items: value of χ2/df < 3.00, goodness-of-fit index (GFI) > 0.90, comparative fix index (CFI) > 0.90, normed-fit index (NFI) > 0.90, Tucker-Lewis index (TLI) > 0.90, adjusted goodness of fit index (AGFI) > 0.90, Bollen’s incremental fit index (IFI) > 0.90, and root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA) < 0.08. The factor loading for latent variables of the conceptual model over 0.5 was considered acceptable.
We tested the initial model (M0) and observed acceptable model fits and factor loading values (Supplementary Table S1). After that, we removed pathways without at least a marginal statistical significance (p > 0.1) [66]. The modified model (M1) with fine model fits was selected as the final model.

3.3.3. Sensitivity Analyses

We established competing models by re-specifying localized points of theoretical causalities based on the following two theories (Supplementary Figure S1):
(1)
Model 2 (M2): Sleep problems may predict mental health issues;
(2)
Model 3 (M3): A reciprocal relationship may present between sleep problems and mental health issues [67];
(3)
Model 4 (M4): A reciprocal relationship may present between physical activity and stress [68].
To check if the final model could fit users who used TikTok at night or had delayed bedtime for TikTok, we conducted subgroup analyses that compared the models for nighttime users (M5) and bedtime delay users (M6) with that for all users.
The Akaike information criterion (AIC) and Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) were used for competing model selection [69].
All the statistical analyses were conducted in SPSS 25.0 and AMOS 20.0 software (SPSS Inc. Chicago, IL, USA).

4. Results

4.1. Validation of Measurements

The Cronbach’s alpha for sleep quality (PSQI), Stress (PSS-10), Depression (PHQ-9), and Anxiety (GAD-7) was 0.86, 0.80, 0.93, and 0.93 respectively, indicating ideal internal consistency (Table 1).

4.2. Characteristics of the Study Population

Three hundred and sixty-six (55.55%) males and two hundred and ninety-four (45.45%) females were involved in the current study. All the participants were users of TikTok (use TikTok at least 60 min a day in the most recent month), and 646 (97.88%) participants usually watch TikTok at night (Table 2). Besides, 568 (86.06%) participants usually delay their bedtime for watching TikTok.

4.3. The Final SEM Model

As the initial model showed an acceptable fit to the data (χ2 = 28.575, df = 23, χ2/df = 1.242, p = 0.195, GFI = 0.991, AGFI =0.982, NFI = 0.987, IFI = 0.997, TLI = 0.996, CFI = 0.997, and RMSEA < 0.001), the factor loadings were ranged from 0.81 to 0.93, which were acceptable. The final model (M1) with direct pathways between variables is shown in Figure 2.
Table 3 demonstrates the standardized total, direct, and indirect effects of PA on core variables. PA showed significant total impacts on mental health issues (β = −0.079, p = 0.001), bedtime delay for TikTok (β = −0.043, p = 0.001), and poor sleep quality (β = −0.056, p = 0.001), and indirect pathways contributed to the total impacts.
The indirect pathways from PA to bedtime delay for TikTok or poor sleep quality are shown in Table 4. Two indirect pathways contributed to the total effect of PA on bedtime delay for TikTok, and the pathway mediated by bedtime delay and mental health contributed the most to the effect (β = −0.029, p = 0.001). Three pathways contributed to the total effect of PA on poor sleep quality, and the pathway mediated by stress and mental health issues contributed the most to the total effect (β = −0.048, p = 0.002).

4.4. Sensitivity Analysis

Competing Model M2 (where poor sleep quality predicts mental health issues), Model M3 (where a reciprocal relationship presents between poor sleep quality and mental health issues), and Model M4 (where a reciprocal relationship presents between PA and stress) showed acceptable fits (Supplemental Figure S1 and Table S1). However, our final model (M1) retained the lowest AIC and BIC values, indicating a better fit than these competing models. We constrained the structural weights and compared the model specified for nighttime TikTok users only (M3) with that for total users (M1), and no significant difference was found between the two them (Δχ2 = 0.313, df = 6, p = 0.999). Likewise, no significant differences were observed between the model for bedtime delay users (M5) and the model for all users (M2) (Δχ2 = 8.573, df = 6, p = 0.199), indicating that the pathways in our framework can generally fit TikTok users.

5. Discussion

This study aims to develop a framework to explore pathways that link PA to the sleep quality of TikTok users. We found PA indirectly benefited sleep quality through stress, mental health issues, and bedtime delay for TikTok, which may underline the role of PA on human health in the short-video era. The indirect pathways mediated by stress and mental health are theoretically in line with the theories on the general public. The pathways mediated by bedtime delay for TikTok were not strong but significant. We found a distinctive impact of PA on bedtime delay for TikTok, which may indicate a special benefit of PA on TikTok users. The following discussion was focused on the pathways involved with bedtime delay for TikTok.

5.1. General Discussion

In the current study, stress was found to directly increase bedtime delay for TikTok, meanwhile indirectly increasing bedtime delay via increasing mental health problems. From a positive perspective, using TikTok could be a beneficial behavior. According to the Compensatory Internet Use Theory, people connect to the global network to avoid real-life problems and compensate for dysphoric moods [70]. Likewise, TikTok is an extended network and the most welcomed entertainment, which provides a solution for urban dwellers to regulate native emotions and avoid stressful conditions in urban living. However, as the compensation effect is found to correlate to negative emotions, the chronic stressful conditions in cities may lead to unhealthy attachments, such as known unhealthy attachments to social media, smartphones, and the internet [71,72,73]. These harmful conditions may partially explain the positive relationship observed between stress and bedtime delay for TikTok [74]. Besides, stress is known as an important cause of anxiety and depression. An identified pathway from stress to mental health problems also confirms this relationship [75,76,77]. These mental health problems are reported to limit individuals’ ability to suppress and control undesired behaviors, which may further lead to addictive behaviors, such as overuse of TikTok at night [16,40]. These findings may also explain the distinctive pathway from stress to bedtime delay via mental health problems.
Regarding the pathways from PA to sleep quality, sleep quality was not directly affected by PA. Instead, stress played an important mediatory role in contributing to all the distinctive pathways heading towards sleep quality. Specifically, PA has promoted sleep quality by relieving stress that led to mental health problems or bedtime delays for TikTok. In previous studies, PA promoted sleep quality in various populations [28,78,79,80]. Sleep quality benefits could be explained by positive mood changes, mental conditions, and autonomic nervous functions [81,82,83]. However, most existing studies only focused on outcomes or direct effects, while other indirect pathways are not very clear. Similar to our conceptual framework, Amer [84] observed significant correlations between PA, mental health problems, and sleep quality, but no causality was proposed. By comparison, our findings demonstrate a potential mechanism for the benefits of PA on sleep quality in TikTok users and underline the role of stress in increasing mental health problems. PA’s stress reduction function can be due to its positive impacts on hormones and neurotransmitters, such as dopamine and serotonin, which may benefit emotional outcomes and further enhance sleep quality [81,82,83,85].
On the other hand, sleep quality was not directly driven by stress either. Mental health problems and bedtime delay were found to be two mediators linking stress and sleep quality. Mental health problems have been proved to reduce sleep quality by decreasing sleep efficiency and increasing sleep onset latency [86,87]. In response, PA can effectively treat mental health problems by regulating the release and synthesis of brain-derived neurotrophic factors and the insulin-like growth factor, which may contribute to better sleep quality [88]. In terms of bedtime delay for TikTok, as we discussed above, it could be a stress-induced addictive behavior. Based on the design of TikTok, the short videos recommended based on users’ preferences may increase dopamine and lead to mental pleasure. Furthermore, a short video usually lasts merely several seconds, which improves users’ operations on TikTok compared to other media platforms. Thus, this TikTok design can lead to a more frequent stimulus-feedback-reward and become more addictive. Besides, the upcoming short videos are concealed for TikTok. The unexpected reward generated by uncovering a new short video may increase the activity of dopamine neurons, thus giving a positive feedback signal to the brain regions associated with the preceding behavior [89]. Apart from the subjective wishes of watching short videos at night, other known harmful factors of smartphones may also prolong bedtime delay by reducing sleep drive. For instance, the ruminative thoughts and emotional involvement activated by the nighttime use of smartphones can make users sleepless [7,90]. Meanwhile, the electromagnetic radiation and LED light of electronic equipment can inhibit melatonin (a hormone in the human body that induces natural sleep) and may further aggravate bedtime delay [91,92].

5.2. Limitation

Several limitations need to be considered when interpreting the results of the current study.
First, the cross-sectional feature of the data may limit us from verifying the direction of causalities. That is an inherent limitation of all SEM methods using cross-sectional data. Although we have established several competing models based on extra theories, the issues of causality cannot be eliminated. Future studies may need to consider the time sequence of variables and may design several stages for data collecting. For example, measuring PA engagement of daytime and TikTok use on the same day night may help to support temporal precedence.
Second, we have taken some procedures to reduce common method variance (CMV), such as using concise well-studied instruments, excluding questionnaires with identical and random answers. However, CMV cannot be ruled out because we used a single investigation on the same participants to measure dependent and independent variables without a design for time intervals. Moreover, participants might not want to disclose their poor mental conditions and offered ambivalent answers. These may have inflated the relationships between the variables.
Third, most of our participants were young and middle-aged people. Only 0.15% of people aged over 69 years participated in our investigation, which is not consistent with the age structure of the general population of China (13.5% of China’s total population is over 65 years old). This is because we used a convenient method to recruit participants. The snowball method was likely to include college students and relevant people. Therefore, a single-informant bias must have been presented in our study. Moreover, we only employed self-reported measures, which may increase the informant bias. Future studies may need to employ stratified sampling methods and objective measures to obtain results that can be better generalized to the public.

6. Conclusions

The current study aimed to explore the role of PA on the problematic use of TikTok before sleep and the subsequent sleep problems. We found PA indirectly and positively impacted the sleep quality of TikTok users through stress, mental health issues, and bedtime delay for TikTok. These findings collectively support the positive role of PA in human behaviors and health. Moreover, we found several indirect pathways that negatively linked PA and bedtime delay for TikTok, which offers a framework to partially explain the known negative association between PA and problematic use of smartphones or the internet. Based on our findings, encouraging PA is a helpful method to benefit users of TikTok and maybe other short-video platforms. Nevertheless, it is noteworthy that our modeling was based on cross-sectional data, so the actual causal relationships between variables still require longitudinal controlled trials to re-examine.

Supplementary Materials

The following supporting information can be downloaded at: https://www.mdpi.com/article/10.3390/ijerph19095142/s1, Figure S1: Structures of competing models; Table S1: Model fits of the models.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization, X.Z.; methodology, X.Z. and H.L.; validation, X.Z.; formal analysis, X.Z. and H.L.; investigation, X.Z.; data curation, X.Z.; writing—original draft preparation, X.Z.; writing—review and editing, X.Z. and H.L.; supervision, S.F. and R.P.; project administration, H.L. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

This research received no external funding.

Institutional Review Board Statement

The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, and approved by the Institutional Review Board of Southwest University (code: 2021307012).

Informed Consent Statement

Informed consent was obtained from all subjects involved in the study.

Data Availability Statement

The data is available upon request from the corresponding author.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1. Conceptual model of physical activity–sleep quality pathways for TikTok users.
Figure 1. Conceptual model of physical activity–sleep quality pathways for TikTok users.
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Figure 2. Final structural equation modeling (SEM) model describing the direct effects between variables. Note: * p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01; *** p < 0.001. As a higher Cronbach’s alpha for sleep quality (PSQI) score indicates worse sleep quality, the “sleep quality” in the framework was replaced with “poor sleep quality” in the final model.
Figure 2. Final structural equation modeling (SEM) model describing the direct effects between variables. Note: * p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01; *** p < 0.001. As a higher Cronbach’s alpha for sleep quality (PSQI) score indicates worse sleep quality, the “sleep quality” in the framework was replaced with “poor sleep quality” in the final model.
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Table 1. Internal consistency of the questionnaires.
Table 1. Internal consistency of the questionnaires.
-PSQIPSS-10PHQ-9GAD-7
DimensionSleep qualityStressDepressionAnxiety
Cronbach’s α0.860.800.930.92
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Table 2. Summary statistics of the study population.
Table 2. Summary statistics of the study population.
VariablesCategoryMean (SD)Percentage
GenderMale-55.45%
-Female-44.55%
Age (years)18<-5.45%
-18~45-90.30%
-46~69-4.09%
->69-0.15%
User of TikTok--100.00%
Watch TikTok at night--97.88%
Bedtime delay for TikTok--86.06%
Physical activityFrequency (points)3.49 (1.81) -
-Duration (score)2.64 (1.25)-
Bedtime delay for TikTokFrequency (score)3.07 (1.88) -
-Duration (score)2.38 (1.60) -
Stress (PSS-10 score)-15.30 (5.96) -
Depression (PHQ-9 score)-4.48 (5.15) -
Anxiety (GAD-7 score)-3.52 (3.94) -
Sleep quality (PSQI score)-5.21 (3.22) -
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Table 3. Standardized total, direct, and indirect effects of physical activity (PA) on core variables.
Table 3. Standardized total, direct, and indirect effects of physical activity (PA) on core variables.
Variable Total β (95% CI)pDirect β (95% CI)pIndirect β (95% CI)p
Stress−0.118 (−0.194, −0.047)0.001−0.118 (−0.194, −0.047)0.001--
Mental health issues−0.079 (−0.131, −0.032)0.001--−0.079 (−0.131, −0.032)0.001
Bedtime delay for TikTok−0.043 (−0.075, −0.017)0.001--−0.043 (−0.075, −0.017)0.001
Poor sleep quality−0.056 (−0.095, −0.023)0.001--−0.056 (−0.095, −0.023)0.001
Note: β, standardized effects.
Table
Table 4. Indirect pathways from PA to bedtime delay for TikTok and poor sleep quality.
Table 4. Indirect pathways from PA to bedtime delay for TikTok and poor sleep quality.
Pathwaysβ (95% CI)p
PA → Stress → Bedtime delay−0.013 (−0.033, −0.003)p = 0.011
PA → Stress → Mental health issues → Bedtime delay−0.029 (−0.059, −0.011)p = 0.001
PA → Stress → Bedtime delay → Poor sleep quality−0.005 (−0.012, −0.002)p = 0.002
PA → Stress → Mental health issues → Poor sleep quality−0.048 (−0.083, −0.018)p = 0.002
PA → Stress → Mental health issues → Bedtime delay → Poor sleep quality−0.002 (−0.006, −0.001)p = 0.002
Note: PA, physical activity; bedtime delay, bedtime delay for TikTok.
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