ArticleFrontiers in psychology2019
Sedentary Behavior and Problematic Smartphone Use in Chinese Adolescents: The Moderating Role of Self-Control.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
46 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 81 citations in OpenAlex.
- Associations of Problematic Smartphone Use and Smartphone Screen Time With Eating Disorder Psychopathology in Non-Clinical Samples: A Systematic Review.JMIR mental health · 2026Pooled it
- The Relationship Between Physical Activity and Mobile Phone Addiction Among Adolescents and Young Adults: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Observational Studies.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2022Pooled it
- The associations between smartphone addiction and self-esteem, self-control, and social support among Chinese adolescents: A meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Pooled it
- Paternal parenting styles, smartphone addiction and the mediating role of self-efficacy in adolescents.BMJ paediatrics open · 2026Article
- Smartphone Addiction and Health Indicators in Portuguese University Students: The Moderating Role of Physical Activity.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Family functioning and mobile phone dependency among adolescents: the mediating role of positive youth development and the moderating effect of physical activity.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Problematic smartphone use in college students: the interplay of adverse childhood experiences and lifestyle factors.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Article
- Changes in smartphone dependence and depressive and anxiety symptoms among Chinese adolescents.BMC medicine · 2025Article
- Mobile phone dependency and subclinical depressive-anxiety symptom co-occurrence in college students: a cross-lagged panel network analysis.BMC public health · 2025Article
- The Brain in the Age of Smartphones and the Internet: The Possible Protective Role of Sport.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- The impact of entertainment screen time on sleep quality in Chinese and British adolescents: a moderated mediation model.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Association between changes in self-esteem and smartphone dependency among Korean adolescents.PloS one · 2025Article
- The prevalence of smartphone addiction and its related risk factors among Palestinian high school students: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- The impact of parental psychological control on adolescents' physical activity: the mediating role of self-control and the moderating role of psychological capital.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The Association between Problematic Smartphone Use and Mental Health in Austrian Adolescents and Young Adults.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The relationship between nighttime exercise and problematic smartphone use before sleep and associated health issues: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Article
- Effects of short video addiction on college students' physical activity: the chain mediating role of self-efficacy and procrastination.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Influence of physical activity on problematic smartphone use in medical students: mediating effects of social anxiety and the moderating role of gender.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
This study investigated smartphone use characteristics including the purpose of smartphone use (i.e., leisure, learning, or work) and situational smartphone use (i.e., sitting, standing, or moving about) in Chinese adolescents. Moreover, it tested the moderating role of self-control in the link between sedentary behavior and problematic smartphone use. A total of 947 adolescents completed measures of the purpose of their smartphone use, situational smartphone use, sedentary behavior, self-control, time on smartphone, and smartphone addiction. Results showed that the majority of smartphone use was for leisure and learning, and 90.9% of adolescents reported typically sitting as they used the smartphone. Problematic smartphone use was positively correlated with sedentary behavior and negatively correlated with self-control. Moreover, the relationship between sedentary behavior and problematic smartphone use was moderated by self-control, in that the negative correlation was stronger for adolescents with low self-control and weaker for those with high self-control. These results contribute to the understanding of when sedentary behavior is associated with problematic smartphone use. Several limitations and implications are discussed in this study.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.