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Article

Alleviating Doctors’ Emotional Exhaustion through Sports Involvement during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Mediating Roles of Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy and Perceived Stress

by
Huilin Wang
1,2,
Xiao Zheng
1,
Yang Liu
1,
Ziqing Xu
3,* and
Jingyu Yang
4,*
1
School of Bussiness, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan 411201, China
2
Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
3
International College, National Institute of Development Administration, Bangkok 10240, Thailand
4
Department of Medical Bioinformatics, University of Göttingen, 37077 Gottingen, Germany
*
Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(18), 11776; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191811776
Submission received: 19 August 2022 / Revised: 12 September 2022 / Accepted: 14 September 2022 / Published: 18 September 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue 2nd Edition of Physical Activity for Health)
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This study aims to understand the state of emotional exhaustion of Chinese doctors during the COVID-19 pandemic, and explore the role of sports involvement in enhancing doctors’ regulatory emotional self-efficacy, reducing stress perception, and alleviating emotional exhaustion. Finally, report the existing problems and make recommendations to the government and hospitals. The researchers constructed a cross-sectional questionnaire survey to collect data. From March to April 2022, using the snowball and convenience sampling methods, a total of 413 valid questionnaires were collected from 13 hospitals in Hunan Province. AMOS 23.0 was used to construct a structural equation model (SEM) with the bootstrapping approach to verify the proposed hypotheses. Doctors with more sports involvement exhibited higher levels of regulatory emotional self-efficacy and lesser perceived stress. Doctors who exhibited higher regulatory emotional self-efficacy had lesser perceived stress. The relationship between sports involvement and emotional exhaustion was mediated by perceived stress and/or regulatory emotional self-efficacy. Therefore, the government and hospitals should strengthen the depth and intensity of implementing the “National Fitness Program” at the hospital level, instead of just holding short-term activities with a small number of participants, but to cover all medical staff with fitness opportunities.
Keywords: doctors; sports involvement; emotional exhaustion; self-efficacy; perceived stress; National Fitness Program doctors; sports involvement; emotional exhaustion; self-efficacy; perceived stress; National Fitness Program

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Wang, H.; Zheng, X.; Liu, Y.; Xu, Z.; Yang, J. Alleviating Doctors’ Emotional Exhaustion through Sports Involvement during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Mediating Roles of Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy and Perceived Stress. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 11776. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191811776

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Wang H, Zheng X, Liu Y, Xu Z, Yang J. Alleviating Doctors’ Emotional Exhaustion through Sports Involvement during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Mediating Roles of Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy and Perceived Stress. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022; 19(18):11776. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191811776

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Wang, Huilin, Xiao Zheng, Yang Liu, Ziqing Xu, and Jingyu Yang. 2022. "Alleviating Doctors’ Emotional Exhaustion through Sports Involvement during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Mediating Roles of Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy and Perceived Stress" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 18: 11776. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191811776

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Wang, H., Zheng, X., Liu, Y., Xu, Z., & Yang, J. (2022). Alleviating Doctors’ Emotional Exhaustion through Sports Involvement during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Mediating Roles of Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy and Perceived Stress. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(18), 11776. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191811776

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