ArticleFrontiers in psychology2022
Exploring the relationship between social exclusion and smartphone addiction: The mediating roles of loneliness and self-control.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis 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
22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Psychological "effects" of digital technology: a meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Problematic Social Media Use and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms in Adolescents.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Association between problematic smartphone use, loneliness, and risk behaviors among high school students in a conflict-affected setting: A cross-sectional study from Palestine.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- The Relationship Between Ostracism and Mental Health Issues Among College Students: The Chain Mediating Role of Rumination and Smartphone Addiction.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Examining the relationship between quest for significance and smartphone addiction: does the dual passion model mediate this relationship?BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Social loneliness and internet gaming addiction among adolescents: the mediating roles of escape motivation and self-control.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The association between passive social media use and personal growth initiative: a moderated mediation model.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The roles of loneliness and self-control in the association between social avoidance and nomophobia among college students.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Personality and Smartphone Addiction in Romania's Digital Age: The Mediating Role of Professional Status and the Moderating Effect of Adaptive Coping.Journal of Intelligence · 2025Article
- Investigating the Relationship between Loneliness, Physical Activity, and Internet Addiction: The Mediating Role of Academic Burnout and Self-Control.Iranian journal of psychiatry · 2025Article
- The Impact of Technostress Generated by Artificial Intelligence on the Quality of Life: The Mediating Role of Positive and Negative Affect.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The impact of social exclusion on experiential sports consumption: the chain mediating roles of loneliness and the need for social connection.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Parental supervision, children's self-control and smartphone dependence in rural children: a qualitative comparative analysis from China.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Examining the double-edged effects of digital literacy on the social integration of retirement migrants.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Diverse social media experiences and adolescents' depressive symptoms: the moderating role of neurobiological responsivity to rejected peers.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Article
- Risk Factors of Smartphone Addiction: A Systematic Review of Longitudinal Studies.Public health challenges · 2024Review
- The impact of negative urgency on implicit mobile phone addiction tendency among college freshmen in the context of social exclusion.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Linking adolescents' phubbing to depression: the serial mediating effects of peer relationship quality and psychological need frustration.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Social Exclusion and Short Video Addiction: The Mediating Role of Boredom and Self-Control.Psychology research and behavior management · 2024Article
- Network structure of mobile phone addiction and anxiety symptoms among rural Chinese adolescents.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Previous studies have identified many antecedents of smartphone addiction. However, social exclusion as a risk factor for smartphone addiction has not been widely studied, and little is known concerning the psychological mechanism underlying this association. The present study tested the influence of social exclusion on smartphone addiction as well as the mediating roles of loneliness and self-control in this relationship. An online survey was conducted, and the sample consisted of 573 university students (323 females). The results revealed that (1) social exclusion was a positive predictor of smartphone addiction; (2) loneliness and self-control separately mediated the association between social exclusion and smartphone addiction; and (3) loneliness and self-control sequentially mediated the relation between social exclusion and smartphone addiction. Possible explanations were discussed. The findings of the current study would contribute to understanding the relationships between these study variables as well as the psychological mechanisms underlying these associations.
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.