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  "abstract": "University students face increasing psychological pressure, yet formal mental health services often remain limited in reach and depend on active help-seeking. This study examines university physical education (PE) as an educational context whose perceived qualities may be associated with psychological resources relevant to adaptation under stress. Using cross-sectional survey data from 831 Chinese college students, we examined whether perceived PE course experience was associated with resilience-based psychological recovery capacity and whether this association was indirectly linked through emotion regulation, exercise self-efficacy, and peer connectedness. The retained measurement specification represented PE course experience as a second-order construct comprising teacher support, mastery climate, embodied engagement, emotional release, and peer interaction. Structural equation modeling indicated that PE course experience was positively associated with resilience-based psychological recovery capacity and with all three proposed indirect-linking variables. Bootstrapping results supported significant indirect associations through emotion regulation, exercise self-efficacy, and peer connectedness, with exercise self-efficacy showing the largest estimated indirect association. The association remained significant after controlling for perceived stress and extracurricular exercise frequency. These findings link perceived PE course qualities with resilience-based adaptive capacity, conditional on the measured covariates. They do not isolate curriculum effects from physical-activity exposure. Because the design is cross-sectional, the findings should be interpreted as theoretically grounded associations rather than causal effects.",
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      "name": "Wendong Yang"
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  "published": "2026-10-15",
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  "title": "University physical education course experience and resilience-based psychological recovery capacity among students in Chinese higher education: indirect associations through emotion regulation, exercise self-efficacy, and peer connectedness",
  "title_text": "University physical education course experience and resilience-based psychological recovery capacity among students in Chinese higher education: indirect associations through emotion regulation, exercise self-efficacy, and peer connectedness",
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