## 3 Results
### Total Sample
However, the wide variability of responses reflects the significant diversity in the emotional experiences of the participants. Table 3 shows the correlations between the Mental Health Inventory variables together with age, BMI, and the mean practice time of PE per session (in minutes). When analyzing the bivariate correlations in the total sample (Table 3), it was possible to see that there was a small positive correlation between age and BMI (\(r\) = 0.183, \(p\) < 0.01). Besides this, there were no other significant correlations between the age variable and the others. The BMI variable did not show any significant correlation, indicating that, for the total sample, BMI had no association with the other variables. The mean practice time variable showed small positive correlations with most of the dimensions, namely with depression (\(r\) = 0.115, \(p\) < 0.05), loss of behavioral/emotional control (\(r\) = 0.160, \(p\) < 0.01), general positive affect (\(r\) = 0.140, \(p\) < 0.01), emotional ties \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c} \hline \hline  & **Mean \(\pm\) SD** & **Min–Max** & **(95\% CI)** \\ \hline Anxiety & 38.70 \(\pm\) 9.86 & (10–60) & (14–60) \\ Depression & 19.40 \(\pm\) 4.28 & (5–29) & (6–29) \\ Loss of Behavioral/Emotional Control & 38.55 \(\pm\) 8.24 & (9–77) & (12–53) \\ General Positive Affect & 39.34 \(\pm\) 9.60 & (11–66) & (16–66) \\ Emotional Ties & 12.08 \(\pm\) 3.16 & (3–18) & (4–18) \\ Psychological Distress & 96.66 \(\pm\) 21.27 & (24–166) & (36–139) \\ Psychological Well-Being & 51.42 \(\pm\) 11.54 & (14–84) & (22–83) \\ Total score—Mental Health Inventory & 148.09 \(\pm\) 31.43 & (38–250) & (58–215) \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular} Note: SD, standard deviation; CI, confidence interval.  
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Table 2: Mental Health Inventory scores of the total sample. \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c c c c c c c} \hline \hline  & **1** & **2** & **3** & **4** & **5** & **6** & **7** & **8** & **9** & **10** & **11** & **12** \\ \hline
1. Age (years) & 1 & & & & & & & & & & \\
2. BMI (kg/m\({}^{3}\)) & 0.186** & 1 & & & & & & & & & \\
3. Mean practice (min) & 0.031 & 0.045 & 1 & & & & & & & \\
4. Minutes per week (min) & 0.083 & 0.003 & 0.520** & 1 & & & & & & \\
5. Anxiety & -0.002 & 0.044 & 0.090 & 0.011 & 1 & & & & & \\
6. Depression & -0.049 & 0.019 & 0.115** & 0.035 & 0.861** & 1 & & & & \\
7. Loss of Behavioral/ & & & & & & & & & \\ Emotional Control & -0.009 & -0.001 & 0.160** & 0.034 & 0.834** & 0.865** & 1 & & & \\
8. General Positive Affect & -0.046 & 0.012 & 0.140** & 0.001 & 0.776** & 0.767** & 0.769** & 1 & & & \\
9. Emotional Ties & 0.045 & -0.003 & 0.099 & 0.476** & 0.481** & 0.529** & 0.508** & 1 & & \\
10. Psychological Distress & -0.014 & 0.024 & 0.127** & 0.026 & 0.960** & 0.935** & 0.948** & 0.812** & 0.522** & 1 & \\
11. Psychological Distress & -0.026 & 0.009 & 0.144** & 0.017 & 0.777** & 0.771** & 0.786** & 0.972** & 0.697** & 0.819** & 1 \\ Well-Being & -0.019 & 0.019 & 0.138** & 0.024 & 0.935** & 0.916** & 0.930** & 0.906** & 0.609** & 0.978** & 0.922** & 1 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular} Note: *, \(p\) < 0.05; **, \(p\) < 0.01.  
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Table 3: Bivariate correlations between the variables studied for the total sample. (\(r\) = 0.099, \(p\) < 0.05), psychological distress (\(r\) = 0.127, \(p\) < 0.01), psychological well-being (\(r\) = 0.144, \(p\) < 0.01) and with the total variable (\(r\) = 0.138, \(p\) < 0.01). The minutes per week were not associated with any of the variables studied except the mean practice time (\(r\) = 0.520, \(p\) < 0.01). Analyzing the Mental Health Inventory dimensions revealed significant moderate-to-strong correlations between all the Mental Health Inventory variables.