ArticleFrontiers in psychology2025
The mediating role of internet use in the relationship between working hours and depressive symptoms: an analysis based on cross-lagged models.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Background: Amidst the rapid development of the digital economy, prolonged working hours linked to mental health have become a global concern. Objective: To examine the longitudinal interplay between working hours and depression, and the mediating role of internet use. Methods: Utilizing a two-wave longitudinal dataset from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) spanning 2016 to 2018, we constructed a dynamic analysis sample of 4,900 workers aged 18-70. We employed cross-lagged panel models and semi-longitudinal mediation models to systematically investigate the bidirectional mechanisms between working hours and depressive symptoms. A key focus was to elucidate the mediating pathways of internet use and its heterogeneity across different groups. Results: The cross-lagged model revealed that working hours, internet use, and depressive symptoms showed dynamic interplay. Working hours, internet use, and depressive symptoms in 2016 positively predicted their respective outcomes in 2018. 2016 working hours positively predicted 2018 internet use ( Conclusion: Excessive work harms mental health. Internet use mediates this effect, effectively buffering the psychological harm of overwork.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.