ArticlePsychology research and behavior management2024
Brief Mindfulness Training Mitigates College Students' Mobile Phone Addiction: The Mediating Effect of the Sense of Meaning in Life.
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- Therapeutic Interventions Targeted at Problematic Use of Digital Technology: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Evidence.JMIR mental health · 2026Pooled it
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- 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
- Assessment of smartphone addiction and its relationship with health-promoting lifestyle profile and intuitive eating behavior: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
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Abstract
Objective: To explore the impact of brief mindfulness training on college students' mobile phone addiction and the mediating effect of the sense of meaning in life between them. Methods: This study has employed the mixed experimental design of 2 (experimental conditions) × 2 (time points), randomly assigned 44 college students into a mindfulness training group and a control group (22 college students in each group), and selected the Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory (FMI), Mobile Phone Addiction Tendency Scale (MPATS), and Chinese Meaning in Life Questionnaire (C-MLQ) to conduct separate tests before and after mindfulness training. Results: The results show that: (1) in the pretest, the differences between the mindfulness training group and the control group in the level of mindfulness, the level of mobile phone addiction, and the sense of meaning in life are not statistically significant; (2) in the posttest, compared with those of the control group, both the FMI score ( Conclusion: The results of this study reveal the impact and mechanism of brief mindfulness training on college students' mobile phone addiction, and provide an empirical basis for intervening on mobile phone addiction.
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