Intrinsic Motivation-oriented Active Health Design for Youth

XIA Yaqin; XU Xiang; ZHAO Tengyu; JIANG Chenhan

doi:10.19554/j.cnki.1001-3563.2026.16.010

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Packaging Engineering ›› 2026, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (16) : 105-118. DOI: 10.19554/j.cnki.1001-3563.2026.16.010

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Intrinsic Motivation-oriented Active Health Design for Youth

XIA Yaqin¹, XU Xiang¹, ZHAO Tengyu², JIANG Chenhan^1,*

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To address the coexistence of high health anxiety and low behavioral compliance among university students, the work aims to adopt bibliometric methods to systematically sort out Chinese and international research contexts and construct an active health design framework for intrinsic motivation stimulation. With the Web of Science Core Collection and CNKI as data sources, 4 798 relevant publications published between 2015 and 2025 were retrieved. Following the PRISMA process, 47 core papers were included for qualitative synthesis analysis after screening. CiteSpace 6.4 software was used to conduct key word co-occurrence, clustering, burst detection and timeline analysis, so as to identify research hotspots and evolutionary trends. Visualization analysis reveals that international research has formed a research network centered on digital health, mobile health and rehabilitation. In recent years, artificial intelligence, emotion regulation and college students have become burst hotspots. Chinese research revolves around the themes of college students, mental health and sub-health, with gamification, service design and interaction effects as emerging directions. Existing intervention designs suffer from three deficiencies: the function-compensation orientation neglects psychological experience, extrinsic incentive mechanisms may induce motivation exhaustion and quantitative monitoring lacks support for meaning construction. By integrating Self-Determination Theory, embodied cognition, and narrative psychology, this work proposes the EIGC (Embodied Interaction, Identity Construction, Gamified Prudence, Community Resonance) active health design framework, with specific design principles and checkpoints to guide youth digital health product development.

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active health / youth sub-health / intrinsic motivation / self-determination theory / embodied interaction / health gamification / service design

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XIA Yaqin, XU Xiang, ZHAO Tengyu, JIANG Chenhan. Intrinsic Motivation-oriented Active Health Design for Youth[J]. Packaging Engineering. 2026, 47(16): 105-118 https://doi.org/10.19554/j.cnki.1001-3563.2026.16.010

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