ArticleFrontiers in psychology2025
Dispositional mindfulness is associated with lower smartphone addiction through digital life balance among Chinese university students.
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- Digital Life Balance and Adolescent Flourishing: The Mediating Roles of Life Satisfaction and Self-Esteem.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Translation, cultural adaptation, and psychometric validation of the Arabic version of the Digital Life Balance Scale in an Arabic-speaking university student sample.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Perceived stress and mobile phone addiction among Chinese undergraduate nursing students: the mediating role of organizational caring climate and self-control.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- From stress to screen: relationship between negative life events and short video addiction among college students: a chain-mediated effect of depression and experiential avoidance.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Background: Prior research links mindfulness to lower levels of several addictive behaviors; however, the mechanisms for smartphone use remain less clear. Method: This cross-sectional study examined the association between dispositional mindfulness and smartphone addiction and tested the mediating role of digital life balance among 1,241 Chinese university students. Participants completed validated Chinese versions of the MAAS, SAS, and DLBS. Results: Correlation analyses showed that dispositional mindfulness was negatively associated with smartphone addiction ( Discussion: These results indicate an indirect association in cross-sectional data, consistent with the possibility that digital life balance partly explains the link. The study provides evidence regarding the psychological processes linking dispositional mindfulness and technology use, suggesting potential applicability of promoting digital life balance as a strategy for addressing smartphone overuse.
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