Survey Data on Outdoor Sports and Mental Health for 330 Shanghai College Students

330 undergraduate students from 10 universities in Shanghai, China participated in a cross-sectional survey between April 25, 2023 and October 25, 2023. The dataset contains anonymized survey responses supporting a research article on the relationship between outdoor sports and mental health. It was authored by shaohong chen and shared under a CC BY 4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze correlations between outdoor sports frequency/duration and mental health scores.
• Compare risk perception scores (teaching, personal, competition, equipment) across different majors or grades.
• Validate the College Sports Ecological Risk Assessment (CSERA) model using structural equation modeling.
• Perform cluster analysis on student subgroups based on risk and mental health profiles.

Strengths

• 330 survey participants from a stratified cluster sample across 10 universities.
• 11 clearly defined variables including validated scales like the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale.
• Data collection occurred over a defined six-month period from April to October 2023.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the Shanghai-only sample.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Cross-sectional survey using stratified cluster sampling.

Time Range

April 25, 2023 to October 25, 2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-10 06:51:07; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Shanghai, China