ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
An Investigation into Smartphone Addiction with Personality and Sleep Quality among University Students.
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- 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
- Smartphone Addiction and Associated Health Outcomes in Adult Populations: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- An Association Among Problematic Smartphone Use, Sleep Quality, Behavioral Engagement and Academic Achievements: A Multiple Mediation Model Based on Large-Scale Data.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Prospective Associations Between Early Adolescent Problematic Screen Use, Mental Health, Sleep, and Substance Use.American journal of preventive medicine · 2026Article
- Mindfulness as a mediator and moderator between interpersonal alienation and smartphone addiction among Taiwanese university students.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Perceived stress and mobile phone addiction among Chinese undergraduate nursing students: the mediating role of organizational caring climate and self-control.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
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- Neural Correlates of Personality Traits in Adolescents Exhibiting Excessive Smartphone Use: A Resting-State FMRI Study.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Prevalence and predictors of problematic smartphone use in a sample of Spanish undergraduate students.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Predictors of the Intention to Stop Using Smart Devices at Bedtime Among University Students in Saudi Arabia: Cross-Sectional Survey.JMIR formative research · 2025Article
- Analysis of Sleep Quality Evaluation Factors Affecting Dry Eye Syndrome.International journal of general medicine · 2025Article
- Determining the relationship of food neophobia, digital addiction, body image perception on social media with dietary inflammatory index among adolescents.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Novel insight into prediction model for sleep quality among college students: a LASSO-derived sleep evaluation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- The relationship between smartphone addiction and sleep disorder among college students: negative emotions as a mediator and gender as a moderator.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Threats of nursing productivity in the digital era: investigating the interplay between smartphones addiction and procrastination behavior among nurses.BMC nursing · 2024Article
- Dysrhythmic saliva microbiota in mobile phone addicts with sleep disorders and restored by acupuncture.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Does the Effect of Stress on Smartphone Addiction Vary Depending on the Gender and Type of Addiction?Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The Relationship between Mobile Phone Dependence and Subjective Well-Being of College Students in China: A Moderated Mediation Model.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Over the past two decades, smartphones have become common, and the accompanying devices have also become much more popular and easily accessible worldwide. With the development of smartphones, accompanied by internet facilities, excessive smartphone use or smartphone addiction may cause sleep disturbance and daily dysfunction. This study proposed examining the association between personality traits and smartphone addiction and its effects on sleep disturbance. Four hundred and twenty-two university participants (80 male and 342 female participants) with a mean age of 20.22 years old were recruited in this study. All participants were asked to complete the following questionnaires: Smartphone Addiction Inventory (SPAI), Tri-dimensional personality questionnaire (TPQ), and Chinese Pittsburgh Sleep Questionnaire Index (CPSQI). The results showed that people with a high tendency toward novelty seeking (NS) as a personality trait, compared to those with lower tendency toward NS, are more likely to become addicted to smartphone use. Moreover, those with a stronger trait of being NS and specific impulsivity factor were found to have higher total scores in the SPAI (
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