ArticleFrontiers in psychology2022
Relationship between university students' physical activity and mobile phone dependence: Mediating effect of subjective well-being and moderating effect of psychological capital.
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- Physical activity, psychological resilience, and adolescent mobile phone addiction-a meta-analytic structural equation modeling study.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
- The mediating role of self-control between physical activity and mobile phone addiction in adolescents: a meta-analytic structural equation modeling approach.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- The effectiveness of physical activity intervention on mobile phone addiction in college students: the chain mediating role of emotion regulation strategies and positive coping style.BMC public health · 2025Trial
- The prevalence of internet addiction and its association with quality of life among inflight security officers based on a national survey: a network analysis perspective.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2025Article
- The impact of physical exercise on mobile phone addiction among college students: a study based on Chinese universities.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Smartphone dependence and its influence on physical and mental health.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Review
- How physical activity protects against smartphone addiction: examining the mediating pathways of resilience and subjective wellbeing in Chinese university students.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The impact of regular physical exercise on mobile phone addiction tendency among Chinese college students: the mediating role of trait boredom and the moderating role of self-control.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The effect of neuroticism on mobile phone addiction among undergraduate nursing students: a moderated mediation model.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- The relationship between nighttime exercise and problematic smartphone use before sleep and associated health issues: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2024Article
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- Physical activity and non-suicidal self-injurious behavior in Chinese adolescents: the chain mediating role of psychological capital and relative deprivation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- The Longitudinal Mediating Effect of Smartphone Dependency on the Relationship between Exercise Time and Subjective Happiness in Adolescents.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Background: With the ongoing development of the information society, the Internet and smartphones have become an essential way of life, but also fostered the problem of mobile phone dependence. Physical activity and subjective well-being have both been shown to correlate with mobile phone dependence, but the impact of subjective well-being on the relationship between physical activity and mobile phone dependence is not fully understood. This study investigates subjective well-being as a potential mediating variable in the relationship. It also investigates whether psychological capital moderates the association between subjective well-being and mobile phone dependence. Methods: A total of 9,569 students from 38 universities in Jiangsu Province were selected. Participants were surveyed Results: The levels of physical activity, subjective well-being, and psychological capital were all significantly higher for male students than female students. However, female students had a significantly higher level of mobile phone dependence. As predicted, there was a direct negative correlation between physical activity and mobile phone dependence, and subjective well-being mediated that relationship. Psychological capital moderated the relationship between subjective well-being and mobile phone dependence. It also positively moderated the indirect effect between physical activity and mobile phone dependence
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