ArticleFrontiers in psychology2022
The mobile phone addiction index: Cross gender measurement invariance in adolescents.
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- The relationship between perceived stress and mobile phone addiction in adolescents: a meta-analysis.BMC psychology · 2025Pooled it
- The influence of different intervention measures on improving mobile phone addiction among teenagers or young adults: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
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- Psychological heterogeneity and transitions of non-suicidal self-injury in adolescents: a two-wave longitudinal cohort study.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Understanding the complex network of anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and smartphone addiction among college art students using network analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Mobile phone addiction and achievement motivation in Chinese medical students: the chain mediating effect of anxiety and depression symptoms.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Relationship Between Loneliness, Hopelessness, Coping Style, and Mobile Phone Addiction Among Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Adolescents.Psychology research and behavior management · 2024Article
- Effects of sports on school adaptability, resilience and cell phone addiction tendency of high school students.World journal of psychiatry · 2023Article
- Effects of use motivations and alexithymia on smartphone addiction: mediating role of insecure attachment.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Psychological resilience buffers the association between cell phone addiction and sleep quality among college students in Jiangsu Province, China.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- University freshmen's excessive smartphone use and psychological safety during the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
The Mobile Phone Addiction Index (MPAI) is a short instrument to assess mobile phone addiction. The Chinese version of this scale has been widely used in Chinese students and shows promising psychometric characteristics. The present study tested the construct validity and measurement invariance of the MPAI by gender in middle school adolescents. The data were collected from 1,395 high school students (females,
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