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Mplus 8.0 was used to conduct longitudinal measurement invariance testing, and Model 6 of the PROCESS macro in SPSS 27.0 was employed to perform chain mediation analysis.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      T1 adverse childhood experiences significantly negatively predicted T2 intrinsic motivation for physical exercise (\u03b2 = \u22120.120,\n                      <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                      &amp;lt; 0.01). T2 meaning in life played a significant mediating role between T1 adverse childhood experiences and T2 intrinsic motivation for physical exercise, with an indirect effect value of \u22120.021, accounting for 17.15% of the total effect. T2 psychological resilience also played a significant mediating role, with an indirect effect value of \u22120.032, accounting for 26.31% of the total effect. The chain mediating effect of T2 meaning in life and T2 psychological resilience was significant, with an effect value of \u22120.023, accounting for 19.07% of the total effect. The direct effect of T1 adverse childhood experiences on T2 intrinsic motivation for physical exercise was not significant (\u03b2 = \u22120.045,\n                      <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                      &amp;gt; 0.05), indicating that the indirect pathways fully accounted for the total association in this model, with the total indirect effect accounting for 62.53% of the total effect.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Adverse childhood experiences are longitudinally associated with lower levels of intrinsic motivation for physical exercise among college students through the individual mediating pathways of meaning in life and psychological resilience, as well as their chain mediating pathway, with the psychological resilience pathway showing the largest effect size. 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