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Influencing factors of short-form video addiction among Chinese university students: a systematic review.
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- Physical activity and insomnia in adolescents: the chain mediating role of anxiety and short video addiction.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- The Impact of Short-Form Video Addiction on Sleep Quality: The Mediating Roles of Emotional, Cognitive, and Executive Components.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Regular Exercise Correlates With Enhanced Self-Control and Prefrontal Function in Excessive Short-Video Users.Brain and behavior · 2026Article
- A network analysis of short video addiction and inattention symptoms among undergraduate nursing students.BMC nursing · 2026Article
- Association of problematic short-video use with adolescent depression: a cross-sectional study and machine learning identification model construction.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Boredom proneness and short-video addiction among Chinese vocational college students: psychological resilience as a mediator and gender as a moderator.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Scrolling to apathy? The relationship between short video addiction and the "lying flat" tendency among Chinese university students.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The relationship between mindfulness, self-control, and short video addiction among medical students.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- An eye-tracking study on the effect of teacher image in Chinese teaching short videos.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The dual-path association between upward social comparison and short video addiction: parallel mediating roles of negative emotions and psychological resilience.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Short-form video addiction and psychological resilience: a cognitive-existential serial mediation model among Chinese college students.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Problematic short drama addiction among Chinese Gen X women: a ZMET approach.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Does learning burnout link physical exercise and problematic short-video use? Evidence from a three-wave random-intercept cross-lagged panel model and supplementary machine-learning analysis among Chinese high school students.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- How short-video usage influences college students' daily lives: empirical evidence from sleep, self-perception, daily life conditions, and emotional state.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
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Abstract
Introduction: This systematic review explores the influencing factors of short-form video addiction (SVA) among Chinese university students over the past 5 years. It offers theoretical and practical implications for understanding and preventing SVA among university students and suggests future research directions. Methods: This review identified 28 eligible peer-reviewed articles from seven English and Chinese databases. The protocol was pre-registered in PROSPERO (CRD420251030636). Results: The findings indicate that SVA among university students is prevalent and multifactorial. Influencing factors include eight domains: demographic, psychological, personality traits, behavioral, social, family, motivation for media use, and platform-induced factors. Discussion: Guided by the I-PACE model, the review organized these domains into the person-affect-cognition-execution framework. Personal factors include demographic and personality traits; social and family factors represent persons' external environmental influences; affective and cognitive components comprise psychological factors and media use motivations; and execution factors include behavioral and platform-induced influences. These components interact with each other and collectively predict SVA throughout university students' development. Psychological and personality trait factors often serve as mediating or chained mediating variables for other influencing factors. Conflicting findings regarding demographic, personality, and psychological influences may result from sample homogeneity and research design limitations. Research gaps remain in policy factors and longitudinal or intervention-based studies. Systematic review registration: https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?ID=CRD420251030636, PROSPERO: CRD420251030636.
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