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The Effect of Physical Exercise on Emotional Eating Among College Students: A Chain Mediation Analysis of Dietary Behavior and Body Satisfaction.

Behav Sci (Basel) · 2026 · PMC13203433 · PMID 42193606

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Grade level and only-child status did not reach statistical significance in their correlations with emotional eating. 4.4.

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It suggests that when examining the mechanisms among multiple variables, a single mediation model may underestimate the actual contribution of some variables—when a variable is in a ‘downstream’ position in the causal chain, its independent mediation effect may not be significant, but as part of a chain pathway, it can play a key role.

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