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Psychol."],"abstract":"<jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Objective<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This study examined the associations among sports dance learning engagement, psychological resilience, perceived supportive climate, and social\u2013emotional competence (SEC), with particular attention to a hypothesized indirect association through psychological resilience and whether the engagement\u2013resilience association varied across levels of supportive climate.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Cross-sectional self-report data were collected from 615 undergraduate students enrolled in sports dance courses at three universities in China. Latent-variable structural equation modeling was used to examine the direct and indirect associations, and PROCESS Model 7 was used as a complementary observed-score analysis of the conditional indirect association.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Sports dance learning engagement was positively associated with psychological resilience (\n                      <jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f=\u202f0.442,\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f&amp;lt;\u202f0.001) and SEC (\n                      <jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f=\u202f0.364,\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f&amp;lt;\u202f0.001), while psychological resilience was positively associated with SEC (\n                      <jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f=\u202f0.375,\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f&amp;lt;\u202f0.001). A statistically significant indirect association between engagement and SEC through psychological resilience was observed (\n                      <jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f=\u202f0.166, 95% Monte Carlo CI [0.120, 0.213]). The engagement\u2013resilience association was larger at higher levels of perceived supportive climate, and the index of moderated mediation was statistically significant (0.053, 95% CI [0.027, 0.080]).\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The findings support a statistically significant moderated indirect-association model in cross-sectional self-report data. They are consistent with the theoretically specified model but do not establish temporal sequencing, causal effects, or a developmental mechanism.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fpsyg.2026.1897483","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,8]],"date-time":"2026-09-08T05:35:26Z","timestamp":1788845726000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Engagement, resilience, and social\u2013emotional competence in university sports dance education: a moderated mediation model"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Yaqi","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate School, Jos\u00e9 Rizal University","place":["Mandaluyong City, Philippines"]},{"name":"School of Physical Education, Jiangsu Ocean University","place":["Lianyungang, Jiangsu, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Wei","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate School, Jos\u00e9 Rizal University","place":["Mandaluyong City, Philippines"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yue","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Music and Dance, Daqing Normal University","place":["Daqing, Heilongjiang, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"157","DOI":"10.1080\/10632913.2021.1961109","article-title":"How dance promotes the development of social and emotional competence","volume":"124","author":"Borowski","year":"2023","journal-title":"Arts Educ. 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