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Mental Health at PeerJ

Mental Health is a state of wellbeing where an individual can cope with daily stressors of life, realise their potential and contribute to the community. This subject includes research into determinants of mental health, strategies to promote and protect individual as well as population level mental wellbeing and treatment of poor mental health.

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The impact of physical activity on social anxiety among college students: an analysis of the chain mediation effect of family support and self-efficacy
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Patterns of pre-sleep music use and sleep quality: exploratory survey findings on state anxiety
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The impact of physical activity on social anxiety among college students: an analysis of the chain mediation effect of family support and self-efficacy
Baiyi Yang, Xiaodi Yang, Zhengyang Fan, Chang Liu, Zhanfei Zheng
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Junli Zhou, Xianhui Huang, Dan Yuan, Liyuan Wang, Minyu Liu, Xue Jiang, Lijuan Xing, Song Xu

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