ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2025
Smartphone addiction and academic procrastination among college students: a serial mediation model of self-control and academic self-efficacy.
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- Supportive University Climate and AI Dependence Among Undergraduates: The Sequential Mediating Role of Academic Self-Efficacy and Self-Control.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The Relationship Between Ostracism and Mental Health Issues Among College Students: The Chain Mediating Role of Rumination and Smartphone Addiction.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Academic procrastination as a mediator linking fear of missing out and social phobia to smartphone addiction among university students: a structural model.BMC psychology · 2026Article
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- The relationship between mobile phone addiction and depression, anxiety among Chinese college students: the mediating role of friendship quality and the moderating effect of preference for solitude.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Mobile phone dependency and adolescent exercise participation: a CB-SEM and fsQCA study on the roles of self-control, time management, and health awareness.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Impact of social media addiction on college students' academic procrastination: a chain mediated effect of lack of self-control and fear of missing out.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Introduction: Researches have highlighted the individual roles of smartphone addiction (SA), self-control (S-C), and academic self-efficacy (AS-E) in predicting academic procrastination (AP), but studies on how these variables combine to affect AP are scarce. Drawing inspiration from the conceptual model of procrastination, this research endeavors to examine a serial mediation model in which SA serves as a precursor, with S-C and AS-E acting as serial mediators in predicting AP among college students who are prone to it. Methods: Participants were 1269 Chinese undergraduates (989 females, Mage = 19.03±1.00) from seven major regions in China. Data were collected using an online questionnaire. Descriptive and mediation analyses were conducted in SPSS 25.0. Results: The findings revealed that SA is indirectly linked to AP through independent and sequential mediation by S-C and AS-E. People with high SA reported lower levels of S-C, which in turn was associated with lower AS-E, and these were associated with higher reports of AP. Discussion: These findings offer significant contributions to the current body of research on AP, laying the groundwork for the development of interventions focused on reducing AP among college students.
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