ArticleBMC psychology2024
The effects of mobile phone addiction on bedtime procrastination in university students: the masking effect of physical activity and anxiety.
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- A meta-analytic reliability generalization study of the Bedtime Procrastination Scale.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Bedtime procrastination and psychological distress in university students: a systematic review and meta-analysis of their association.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
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- Future career clarity and bedtime procrastination among college students: a self-regulation perspective.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Is early-morning class exposure associated with lower positive mental health among university students? Conditional associations and heterogeneous profiles.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- The relationship between physical exercise and sleep procrastination in college students: the chain mediating role of self-control and time management tendencies.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Association between problematic smartphone use, sleep quality, and chronotype among Sudanese medical students during armed conflict: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Exploring the underlying mechanisms linking mobile phone addiction to impaired sleep in Chinese college students.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Investigating the Mediating Role of Distress Between Nomophobia and Student Mindfulness: A Cross-Sectional Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Cross-lagged analysis of mobile phone addiction, bedtime procrastination, and exercise self-efficacy among university students.Journal of exercise science and fitness · 2025Article
- The Relationship Between Physical Activity and Mobile Phone Addiction in College Students: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- The Owls Are Not What They Seem: Health, Mood, and Sleep Problems Reported by Morning and Evening Types with Atypical Timing of Weekend Sleep.Clocks & sleep · 2025Article
- Smartphone addiction and sleep quality in the physical activity-anxiety link: a mediation-moderation model.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- The indirect effects of smartphone addiction on accidental injuries: a cross-sectional study among medical college students.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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- Physical exercise and bedtime procrastination among college students: mediating roles of self-control and mobile phone addiction.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The relationship between perceived stress and bedtime procrastination among Chinese college students: a moderated mediation model.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
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Abstract
purposeGood sleep is one of the necessary conditions to ensure the normal performance of the physiological and psychological functions of college students. This study aimed to explore the relationship between mobile phone addiction and bedtime procrastination among Chinese college students and the mediating mechanisms of physical exercise and anxiety between the two, with a view to seek ways to prevent and intervene in college students' sleep procrastination and improve their sleep quality.
methodsUsing SPSS 29.0 analysis with Bootstrap's method, 3,800 first-year students, sophomores, and juniors were given the Mobile Phone Addiction Tendency Scale, Bedtime Procrastination Scale, Physical Activity Scale, and Anxiety Scale. The results of the analyses included mediation tests and effect analyses of anxiety and physical activity.
resultsThe correlation analysis revealed significant positive correlations between mobile phone addiction and bedtime procrastination (r = 0.149, p < 0.01) as well as anxiety (r = 0.497, p < 0.01). Additionally, there was a significant negative correlation between mobile phone addiction and physical activity (r = -0.447, p < 0.01). Physical activity was also found to have significant negative correlations with anxiety (r = -0.506, p < 0.01) and bedtime procrastination (r = -0.424, p < 0.01). Furthermore, anxiety showed a significant positive correlation with bedtime procrastination (r = 0.334, p < 0.01). Physical activity and anxiety acted as substantial mediators between mobile phone addiction and nighttime procrastination. Both mediators had considerable masking effects, with the mediating effect amounting to 50.3% and 25.1%, respectively. Physical exercise and anxiety played a chain mediating role between mobile phone addiction and bedtime procrastination, and the masking effect was also significant, with a mediating effect size of 13.4%.
conclusionsThis study reveals the special characteristics of the influencing factors and pathways of bedtime procrastination in this group of college students, providing targeted evidence for the prevention and intervention of bedtime procrastination in college students. It also has an important reference value for the effects of exercise and comprehensive intervention to improve bedtime procrastination and enhance the quality of sleep in college students.
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