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Relationship between problematic smartphone use and sleep problems: The roles of sleep-related compensatory health beliefs and bedtime procrastination.
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- A meta-analytic reliability generalization study of the Bedtime Procrastination Scale.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Mediating role of sleep duration in the association between problematic media use and sleep disturbance in children with neurodevelopmental disabilities.Irish journal of medical science · 2026Article
- Sleep Quality in Spanish Adult Women: Associations with Sociodemographic Variables and Pre-Sleep Habits.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The Relationship Between State Boredom and Sleep-Wake Disruptions: A Mediation Model via Smartphone Addiction and Bedtime Procrastination.International journal of environmental research and 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
- Linking Mindfulness to Sleep Deprivation in Adolescents:The Role of General Procrastination and Phubbing.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2025Article
- Associations of addiction-like eating with personal relative deprivation, compensatory health beliefs, and body mass index from the life history perspective.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- 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
- 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
Objective: Concerns regarding sleep problems in emerging adults and their antecedents, such as problematic smartphone use (PSU), have been growing. This study tested the association between PSU and sleep problems and further investigated the mechanisms of this relationship based on the theory of compensatory health beliefs (CHBs). Methods: This study included 999 participants (74.87% female) in China, aged 17 to 25 years (M = 21.16; standard deviation = 1.60), who voluntarily filled in an anonymous survey. Results: The findings showed positive correlations between sleep problems and PSU, sleep-related CHBs, and bedtime procrastination ( Conclusion: This study provides a new perspective to understand the internal mechanism underlying the PSU-sleep problem link. Interventions for sleep disorders ought to consider the theoretical guidelines of the CHBs model to reduce the risk of bedtime procrastination and sleep disorders in emerging adults.
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