ArticleFrontiers in public health2023
A bidirectional association between smartphone addiction and depression among college students: A cross-lagged panel model.
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- The Impact of Smartphone Addiction on PTSD Symptoms Among South African University Students: Resilience as a Protective Factor.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The association between smartphone addiction and creativity in Chinese college students: the chain mediating effects of depression and executive function.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Fatigue as a central bridge: temporal dynamics between problematic smartphone use and depressive symptoms in Chinese adolescents.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2025Article
- Problematic Smartphone Use Is Associated With Current and Previous Major Depressive Disorder.Psychiatry investigation · 2025Article
- Detection of Depressive Symptoms in College Students Using Multimodal Passive Sensing Data and Light Gradient Boosting Machine: Longitudinal Pilot Study.JMIR formative research · 2025Article
- Psychometric properties of the smartphone addiction scale-short version (SAS-SV) in Honduran university students.PloS one · 2025Article
- The prevalence of smartphone addiction and its related risk factors among Palestinian high school students: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- A longitudinal study on the relationships between impulsivity and excessive smartphone use among patients with acquired brain injury and control participants.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Relationship Between Problematic Smartphone Use and Graduate Students' Research Self-Efficacy: A Moderated Mediation Model.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Risk Factors of Smartphone Addiction: A Systematic Review of Longitudinal Studies.Public health challenges · 2024Review
- Daily smartphone use predicts parent depressive symptoms, but parents' perceptions of responsiveness to their child moderate this effect.Frontiers in developmental psychology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Background: Smartphone addiction (SA) is associated with adverse consequences, especially for freshmen. Evidence indicates that SA is associated with depression, and it is necessary to conduct a longitudinal study to explore the association further. Methods: SA (measured by the Smartphone Addiction Scale-Short Version) and depression (measured by the Zung's Self-Rating Depression Scale) among 1,186 freshmen were surveyed at baseline and a respective 12-month follow-up for each participant. The application of a cross-lagged panel model approach (CLPM) revealed an association between SA and depression after adjusting for demographic variables. Results: The CLPM results showed a significant path from baseline SA to follow-up depression (β = 0.08, Conclusions: The current study showed a significant bidirectional association between smartphone addiction and depression among freshmen, but only in the female population.
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