Fig 1.
Hypothetical model.
Table 1.
Reliability and validity test.
Table 2.
Model fit indices of the measurement model.
Table 3.
Describe statistics and correlation (N = 628).
Table 4.
Regression results of the mediation model of sports cognition.
Table 5.
Mediating effect test and 95% CIs of the bootstrap for bias correction.
Table 6.
Moderated mediating effect test (n = 628).
Fig 2.
The solid line represents the conditional effect of sports cognition on sports participation at varying levels of self-efficacy. Dashed lines indicate the 95% confidence intervals. The vertical line at 1.846 denotes the threshold above which the effect becomes statistically significant.
Fig 3.
The solid line represents participants with low self-efficacy, while the dashed line represents those with high self-efficacy.
Table 7.
The moderating role of self-efficacy.