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ArticleInternational journal of mental health and addiction2022

The More Internet Access, the More Mental Symptoms Students Got, the More Problematic Internet Use They Suffered: a Meta-analysis of Mainland Chinese Adolescents and Young Adults.

Shunyu Li, Xiaotong Wang, Zhili Wu, Yuxuan Zhang

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Article in International journal of mental health and addiction, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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4citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Shunyu LiCenter for Teacher Education Research in Xinjiang, Xinjiang Normal University, 100 Guanjing Road, Wulumuqi, 830017 People's Republic of China.
Xiaotong WangCenter for Teacher Education Research in Xinjiang, Xinjiang Normal University, 100 Guanjing Road, Wulumuqi, 830017 People's Republic of China.
Zhili WuCenter for Teacher Education Research in Xinjiang, Xinjiang Normal University, 100 Guanjing Road, Wulumuqi, 830017 People's Republic of China.
Yuxuan ZhangDepartment of Social and Behavioural Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, 999077 People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0002-6179-4313
Xinjiang Normal University · CNCity University of Hong Kong · HK

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The traditional view is that mental symptoms and problematic Internet use are positively related. Still, other researchers have questioned this view, and they believe that mental symptoms are negatively associated with problematic Internet use. Since then, this controversy has continued yet. The current study attempts to use meta-analysis to explore the relationship between mental symptoms and problematic Internet use in mainland Chinese students to provide a reliable basis for resolving this dispute. Sixty-three articles were included in this study, including 66 sample sizes and 47,968 subjects. It found that mental symptoms are positively correlated with problematic Internet use (

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Mental symptomsMeta-analysisProblematic Internet use

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PMID35789813
PMCPMC9244201
OpenAlexW4283755359

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