A279: The Relationship Between Adolescent Sports Participation and Quality of Life: A Moderated Mediation Model

The study focuses on how sports participation reduces interpersonal sensitivity through enhancing social skills and promoting peer interaction, which in turn affects the quality of life of adolescents. At the same time, a gender perspective is introduced to analyze the heterogeneity of different gender groups in terms of sports participation, interpersonal sensitivity, and quality of life, and to reveal the moderating role of gender factors in the pathway of “sports participation - interpersonal relationship sensitivity - quality of life”. This will provide empirical evidence for education departments to develop differentiated exercise intervention programs and for mental health organizations to design targeted counseling strategies. A random sample of 9504 high school students from 16 prefecture-level cities in Shandong Province was selected and surveyed using the School Social Behavioral Scale (SSBS), the Symptom Checklist 90 (SCL-90), the Physical Activity Questionnaire for Adolescents (PAQ-A), and the Scale for Children and Adolescents (QLSCA). A moderated mediated effects model was constructed. Girls scored higher than boys in interpersonal sensitivity (t=-4.19), and boys scored higher than girls in quality of life (t=4.97) and sports participation (t=19.10) (all p-values