ArticleHeliyon2023
The relationship between anxiety and smartphone addiction in the context of Covid-19: The mediating effect of attentional control and executive dysfunction.
Article in Heliyon, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It has been retracted, and should not be counted. Cited by 7 papers.
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- How Perceived Parental Technoference Relates to Adolescent Smartphone Addiction: Evidence from a Moderated Mediation Model.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Volitional control and cell phone addiction: development of a pathway mode.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Cellphone separation modulates the effects of working memory load on ex-Gaussian parameters of choice reaction time.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2025Article
- The effect of negative attention bias on mobile phone addiction in sports majors: a moderated mediation model.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The Impact of Executive Dysfunction on Anxiety in Hearing-Impaired College Students: Smartphone Addiction as a Mediator and Academic Procrastination as a Moderator.Psychology research and behavior management · 2024Article
- Determination of the cutoff point for Smartphone Application-Based Addiction Scale for adolescents: a latent profile analysis.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- The relationship between self-esteem and mobile phone addiction among college students: The chain mediating effects of social avoidance and peer relationships.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
In the context of Covid-19, the present study examined the relationship between anxiety and smartphone addiction and tested the mediation role of attentional control and executive dysfunction. Four hundred and twenty-one Chinese undergraduate students completed anxiety, attentional control, executive dysfunction, and smartphone addiction measures. The findings of correlation analysis indicated that anxiety was negatively associated with attentional control, and positively with executive dysfunction and smartphone addiction. The results of structural equation model showed that attentional control and executive dysfunction played a mediation role between anxiety and smartphone addiction in series. Moreover, anxiety did not directly predict smartphone addiction in the final model including attentional control and executive dysfunction as mediators, suggesting that attentional control and executive dysfunction were full mediators in the relation between anxiety and smartphone addiction.
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