ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021
The Relationship Between Self-Control and Internet Addiction Among Students: A Meta-Analysis.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07002515 (The Effect of Health Education on Digital Game Addiction and Health Promotion Behavior in Adolescents), which is not on this map. Cited by 49 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The Effect of Health Education on Digital Game Addiction and Health Promotion Behavior in Adolescents
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49 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- The relationships among self-control, psychological resilience, and digital addiction in college students: a meta-analytic structural equation modeling.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Childhood trauma and problematic internet use: A meta-analysis based on students in mainland China.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Pooled it
- The association between problematic internet use and social anxiety within adolescents and young adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2023Pooled it
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- The influence of interpersonal competence on smartphone addiction: the moderating role of football participation.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Phenotypes associated with problematic online gaming and gambling: A clustering approach among young adults.Addictive behaviors reports · 2026Article
- Physical exercise moderates the mediating effect of sleep quality between internet addiction and college students' academic burnout.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Mindfulness exercise and quality of life among nursing students: the mediating roles of self-control and internet addiction.BMC nursing · 2026Article
- An Object Hiding Behind the Screen: The Relationship Between Body Surveillance and Internet Addiction Among Chinese Women.Archives of sexual behavior · 2026Article
- Network analysis of problematic internet use and psychopathology: anxiety as a central symptom and sleep reduction as a bridge symptom.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Internet addiction and appearance anxiety among university students in Shanghai: upward social comparison as a mediator and autonomous participation in physical activity as a moderator.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Digital literacy education and problematic Internet use among adolescents: a quasi-experimental study of digital self-efficacy and delay of gratification as cognitive-regulatory correlates.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Cross-sectional correlates and indirect associations linking parental warmth to scores on a study-specific gaming-related symptom index in senior-high-school and university students.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Early detection of problematic internet use among university students: psychometric validation of the PIUQ-9.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Medium-specific escape motivation in internet gaming disorder and problematic social media use among Chinese university students: the role of self-control.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Parental marital conflict and short video dependency: a moderated mediation model.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
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Abstract
As past studies of self-control and Internet addiction showed mixed results, this meta-analysis of 83 primary studies with 80,681 participants determined whether (a) these students with less self-control had greater Internet addiction, and (b) age, culture, gender, Internet addiction measures, or year moderated these relations. We used a random-effects meta-analysis of Pearson product-moment coefficients
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