Physical exercise and quality sleep on brain functioning
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Purpose of the article
In learning and motivation, there is a general that good physical exercise and good sleeping pattern enhance brain function. In the article, the authors accommodated a quantitative study to investigate the correlation between physical exercise and sleep quality in college students and how the mechanism of mindfulness and ruminative thinking plays a role in physical and mental functions (Ye et al., 2022).Fundamentally, the authors accommodate mindfulness as a significant variable type of mood that accepts and focuses on the current moment without blaming or criticizing underlying issues. Additionally, the article’s role submits that physical exercise posts a positive impact on quality sleep that has a direct bidirectional relationship with mindfulness among college students. Moreover, the article identifies ruminative thinking as a continuous, past-focused mood, focusing on negative thinking and causes and consequences. In this sense, the author accommodates vital assumptions that mindfulness has no bidirectional relationship with ruminative thinking, thus ruminative thinking decreases with high mindfulness among individuals and increases with low mindfulness. To achieve the purpose, the authors conducted essential measures including a physical exercise rating scale, mindfulness awareness scale, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, and ruminative responses scale(Ye et al., 2022). In the article, the hypothesis postulates that physical exercise positively impacts quality sleep and pattern, supporting mindfulness and discouraging ruminative thinking and college students, creating physical and mental health for effective performance. Therefore, the purpose of the article was to investigate the correlation between physical exercise and sleep quality in college students and how the mechanism of mindfulness and ruminative thinking plays a role in physical and mental health.
Article Relevance
In Chapter 2, the concepts of learning and motivation submitted that physical exercise and quality sleep and pattern post positive impact on brain functionality. Similarly, the article investigates the correlation between physical exercise and sleep quality in college students and how the mechanism of mindfulness and ruminative thinking, there are critical issues that resonate with the bullet (Good sleeping habits and regular physical exercise enhance brain functioning.) Notably, the study results revealed that sleeping patterns posit a bidirectional relationship with ruminative thinking and a negative correlation with physical exercise and mindfulness (Ye et al., 2022). Similarly, the level of physical exercise is bidirectional to mindfulness, and physical exercise posts a vital impact on sleeping patterns and has a negative correlation with ruminative thinking. Additionally, the outcome on independent variables including physical exercise, mindfulness, and ruminative thinking subjected to multiple regression analysis demonstrated that mindfulness and ruminative thinking predict sleeping patterns. The study controlled gender and age and physical exercise posited a positive impact on sleeping patterns that influences mindfulness, supporting effective brain functioning. Accordingly, the overall findings of the article revealed that there is an essential relationship between physical exercise and sleeping patterns that influences mechanisms such as mindfulness and ruminative thinking among college students. In my selected bullet, there is a practical need to understand how sleeping patterns and physical exercise influence brain functions which is the sole purpose of the article, hence relevancy for effective understanding of physical exercise and sleep in learning and motivation.
Research Participants and Methods
In the study to investigate the correlation between physical exercise and sleep quality in college students and how the mechanism of mindfulness and ruminative thinking plays a role in physical and mental functions, the participants1006 college students (average age = 19.95 years, SD = 1.86 years) from comprehensive universities, normal universities, and sports universities in South, Central and North China, accommodating stratified cluster sampling method. In the study, the researchers accommodated questionnaires to collect data. Similarly, the stud accommodates significant tests after formal consent from the college administration, including Mindfulness Awareness Scale, Ruminative Responses Scale, and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index(Ye et al., 2022). Data collection method embraced the Harman single-factor test Pearson’s correlation analysis, and the bootstrap method for mediating effect. Results revealed that sleeping patterns posit a bidirectional relationship with ruminative thinking and a negative correlation with physical exercise and mindfulness. Similarly, the level of physical exercise is bidirectional to mindfulness, and physical exercise posts a vital impact on sleeping patterns and has a negative correlation with ruminative thinking. Additionally, the outcome on independent variables including physical exercise, mindfulness, and ruminative thinking subjected to multiple regression analysis demonstrated that mindfulness and ruminative thinking predict sleeping patterns(Ye et al., 2022). The study controlled gender and age and physical exercise posited a positive impact on sleeping patterns that influences mindfulness, supporting effective brain functioning.
Journal on learning and motivation
The study result provides a vital platform to encourage college students and learners to participate in physical exercise and quality sleep that post practical implications on brain functioning. As a scholar in learning and motivation, comprehending factors such as physical exercise, quality sleep, mindfulness, and ruminative thinking will inform practical implications on managing positive behavior such as physical exercise, quality sleep, and mindfulness and discourage ruminative thinking for effective learning and outcomes. Therefore, the article provided effective and practical implications for learning and motivation in adapting strategies for brain functioning and performance.
Reference
Ye J, Jia X, Zhang J, and Guo K. (2022). Effect of physical exercise on sleep quality of college students: Chain intermediary effect of mindfulness and ruminative thinking. Front. Psychol. 13:987537. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.987537
