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The associations between smartphone addiction and self-esteem, self-control, and social support among Chinese adolescents: A meta-analysis.
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- The Associations Between Social Support and Problematic Mobile Phone Use Among Children and Adolescents: A Three-level Meta-analysis.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2025Pooled it
- The relationships among self-control, psychological resilience, and digital addiction in college students: a meta-analytic structural equation modeling.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Nature Exposure and Problematic Smartphone Use Among Chinese High School Students: The Mediating Roles of Anxiety and Self-Control.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 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
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- Network analysis and directed acyclic graph of smartphone addiction and multiple mental health factors in youths.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Relationships between smartphone overdependence, self-concept, and mental health among Korean adolescents: Structural equation modelling.BMC psychology · 2026Article
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- Personalized recommendation and short-form video addiction tendency: the mediating effect of flow and the moderating effect of self-control.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- The Impact of Upward Social Comparison on Smartphone Addiction Among Adolescents: The Moderating Role of Football Participation.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Psychometric validation of the English version of the digital wellbeing questionnaire for young adults.PloS one · 2026Article
- "If I can get my work done, I'm not addicted to my phone": Investigating smartphone use among language students.PloS one · 2026Article
- Association between perceived usefulness of generative AI for learning and generative AI dependency among university students in Changde, China: a cross-sectional study of statistical indirect effects.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Disentangling stable traits from dynamic processes: a longitudinal investigation of academic burnout and problematic mobile phone use.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- The relationship between digital health literacy and problematic mobile social media use among adolescents: the chain mediating role of physical activity and social-emotional competence.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The Association of Fatalistic Determinism With Problematic Smartphone Use in Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study Assessing the Mediating Roles of Self-Control and Grit.Journal of nursing management · 2026Article
- Perceived social support and social/non-social problematic smartphone use among Chinese university students: a cross-sectional study of indirect associations via social anxiety.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
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Abstract
Background: Smartphone addiction has become a social problem that affects the healthy growth of adolescents, and it is frequently reported to be correlated with self-esteem, self-control, and social support among adolescents. Methods: A meta-analysis was conducted by searching the PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, PsycINFO, PsycArticles, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), WANFANG DATA, and Chongqing VIP Information Co., Ltd. (VIP) databases. Stata 16.0 was used to analyse the overall effect and test the moderating effect. Results: Fifty-six studies were included, involving a total of 42,300 participants. Adolescents' smartphone addiction had a moderately negative correlation with self-esteem ( Conclusion: There was a strong relationship between smartphone addiction and self-esteem, self-control, and social support among adolescents. In the future, longitudinal research should be carried out to better investigate the dynamic changes in therelationship between smartphone addiction and self-esteem, self-control, and social support. Systematic review registration: https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/, identifier: CRD42022300061.
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