ArticlePeerJ2023
Physical activity, problematic smartphone use, and burnout among Chinese college students.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 20 citations in OpenAlex.
- The relationship between academic burnout and problematic smartphone use: a three-level meta-analysis.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
- Individual and joint associations of smartphone addiction and work duration with job burnout in nursing interns: a multicenter cross-sectional study.BMC nursing · 2026Article
- Directional Relations Between Symptoms of Adolescent Smartphone Addiction, Academic Burnout, and Psychological Distress: A Cross-Lagged Panel Network Analysis.Psychology research and behavior management · 2026Article
- Mechanisms linking school physical education policies to college students' physical activity: an empirical test of a moderated mediation model.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Smartphone addiction and self-esteem among university students: a moderated mediation and latent profile analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Exploring the influence of problematic smartphone use on physical activity: chain mediation of Self-Control and Exercise Procrastination and moderation by Independent and Interdependent Self-Construal.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Within-person reciprocal associations between problematic smartphone use and exercise adherence among university students: a four-wave random-intercept cross-lagged panel study.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and academic burnout among university students: the mediating role of future time perspective and the moderating role of psychological flexibility.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Analyzing Global Research Trends on Medical Resident Burnout and Physical Activity: A Bibliometric Analysis (2005-2025).Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- The Relationship Between Physical Activity and Mobile Phone Addiction in College Students: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Moderated mediation model of the association between problematic smartphone use and dry eye disease within Moroccan adolescents.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Exploring associations between problematic technology-dependent behaviors, physical and mental health, sleep quality, and academic procrastination among medical students.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Recommendations for Physical Exercise as a Strategy to Reduce Problematic Use of the Internet and Digital Devices: A Perspective.International journal of environmental research and public health · 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
- Effects of physical activity on academic burnout among rural left-behind children in China: the chain-mediated roles of loneliness and general self-efficacy.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The impact of parental psychological control on adolescents' physical activity: the mediating role of self-control and the moderating role of psychological capital.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The relationship between physical exercise and problematic internet use in college students: the chain-mediated role of self-control and loneliness.BMC public health · 2024Article
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- Could physical activity alleviate smartphone addiction in university students? A systematic literature review.Preventive medicine reports · 2024Review
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Authors and funding
6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
The aim of this study was to investigate the association between physical activity (PA), problematic smartphone use (PSU), and burnout, as well as to identify whether there is a mediating role for PSU. We recruited 823 college students (
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