SynthesisFrontiers in public health2022
Association between mobile phone addiction and social support among mainland Chinese teenagers: A meta-analysis.
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- Digital media exposure and pediatric health: the recommendations from the Italian Society of Pediatrics Digital Dependency Commission.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2026Guideline
- Examining the mediating roles of self-esteem and social support in the link between digital addiction and mental health: findings from a meta-analytic structural equation modeling study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
- Factors Associated With Digital Addiction: Umbrella Review.JMIR mental health · 2025Pooled it
- Relationship between online social support and problematic internet use: a three-level meta-analysis.BMC psychology · 2025Pooled it
- 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
- Treatment strategies for smartphone addiction: efficacy study of transcranial direct current stimulation and exergaming.Frontiers in public health · 2024Trial
- Mobile phone addiction as a mediator in the association between alexithymia and self-directed learning among Chinese nursing students: a structural equation modeling analysis.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- A sex-specific difference in smartphone addiction, physical activity level, and cognitive functions among university students.AIMS public health · 2026Article
- The mediation effects of smartphone addiction, negative emotion and psychological resilience in the relationship between social support and sleep quality among medical students.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- The association between perceived social support and internet addiction among Chinese civil aviation male flight students: chain mediating effects of positive coping strategies and basic psychological need satisfaction.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Mobile Phone Addiction and Sleep Quality Among Children and Adolescents: Unraveling the Health Consequences.Cureus · 2026Review
- Influence of Problematic Mobile Phone Use on Social and Assertiveness Skills in Adolescents.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Fighting Mobile Phone Addiction with Forgiveness Following Interpersonal Transgressions: A Psychological Compensation Perspective.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Mobile phone dependency and subclinical depressive-anxiety symptom co-occurrence in college students: a cross-lagged panel network analysis.BMC public health · 2025Article
- The relationship between social support and smartphone addiction: the mediating role of negative emotions and self-control.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- The prevalence of smartphone addiction and its related risk factors among Palestinian high school students: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- The moderating role of social support in the relationship between alexithymia and problematic smartphone use among Chinese depressed adolescents: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Perceived social support, insomnia, and psychological resilience: a chain mediation model of internet addiction in civil aviation cadets.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- The relationship between social support and smartphone addiction among Chinese college students: the mediating role of loneliness and the moderating role of meaning in life.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Exploring the Intrinsic Association Between Perceived Social Support and Depressive Symptoms and Problematic Phone Use Among College Students Based on Network Analysis.Psychology research and behavior management · 2025Article
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Abstract
Background: Mobile phone addiction brings many adverse effects to teenagers, such as physical health problems, emotional problems, and academic failure, and studies have found that social support is an important influencing factor. Therefore, considering institutional, cultural and economic differences, we aimed to investigate the association between mobile phone addiction and social support among mainland Chinese teenagers, and explored the moderators affecting the relation. Methods: Based on the PRISMA method, a meta-analysis was applied to quantitatively synthesize relevant findings to obtain reliable estimates of effect sizes and conduct moderator analyses. Results: In total, 92 studies involving 59,716 participants and 92 effect sizes were identified by a systematic literature search. A significant low degree of negative correlation was found between mobile phone addiction and social support ( Conclusion: This study suggests that the mobile phone addiction level of teenagers could be reduced by increasing social support, and actions to improve their social support levels should be proposed based on their gender and regional differences. Systematic review registration: https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?ID=CRD42021276672.
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