ArticleFrontiers in psychology2025
The impact of physical exercise on mobile phone addiction among college students: a study based on Chinese universities.
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- The interrelationship among physical activity, smartphone addiction, loneliness, and sport motivation in Chinese college students: a cross-sectional network analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The relationship between latent profile-based physical exercise and academic burnout in college students: the mediating roles of self-control and problematic smartphone use.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Perceived parental emotional warmth and academic burnout in physical education pre-service teachers: the chain mediating roles of physical activity and smartphone addiction.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- A cross-sectional study on the impact of physical exercise on mobile phone addiction: the chain mediating role of perceived stress and self-acceptance.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Effects of community-based open and closed skill exercise interventions on ecological executive function and mobile phone dependence of adolescents.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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Abstract
To explore the impact of physical exercise on mobile phone addiction (MPA) among college students and the underlying psychological mechanisms, a questionnaire survey method is utilized to conduct empirical analysis on students from multiple colleges in China. This study uses Physical Activity Rating Scale-3, Mobile Phone Addiction Tendencies Scale (MPATS), Self-Acceptance Questionnaire, and Chinese Perceived Stress Scale to measure psychological variables such as physical activity level, degree of MPA, and self-acceptance and perceived stress among college students. The study reveals the mechanism of physical exercise in reducing MPA. The research results demonstrate a significant negative correlation between MPA and physical exercise. Exercise frequency has the most remarkable influence on withdrawal symptoms and salience behaviors, with correlation coefficients of -0.35 and -0.30, respectively. These findings show that regular engagement in physical activity can substantially mitigate the dependency of college students on mobile phones. Exercise intensity and exercise duration also have a negative effect on MPA, and the correlation coefficient of exercise intensity on withdrawal symptoms is -0.32. Furthermore, self-acceptance as a moderating variable plays an important protective role within the nexus between physical exercise and MPA. Students with higher self-acceptance levels show significant remission in both withdrawal symptoms (
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