Longitudinal Associations Between Materialism and Problematic Smartphone Use in Adolescence: Within- and Between-Person Effects.

Xinran Dai, Huanlei Wang, Xiaoxiong Lai, Shunsen Huang, Xinmei Zhao, Yun Wang

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Article in Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Problematic Smartphone Use and Adolescent Developmental Outcomes: A Three-Wave Longitudinal Analysis of Prospective Associations Through Academic Stress and Time-Use Pathways.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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Xinran DaiState Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.

Huanlei WangState Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.ORCID 0009-0002-3311-746X

Xiaoxiong LaiInstitute of Digital Education, China National Academy of Educational Sciences, Beijing 100088, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5760-0918

Shunsen HuangInstitute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing 100732, China.ORCID 0000-0002-9331-3107

Xinmei ZhaoState Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.

Yun WangState Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2648-4467

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Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Scientific Research Institutes of CNAES GYJ2024076the Major Program of National Social Science Fund of China 20&ZD153

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Abstract

Although there are theoretically expected associations between problematic smartphone use (PSU) and materialism, there is a lack of research that examines these associations using a longitudinal design, focusing on both within-person and between-person effects. Clarifying this relationship may inform interventions for these related conditions. Accordingly, data from three annual waves collected from a substantial group of Chinese adolescents (

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between-person effectmaterialismproblematic smartphone userandom intercept cross-lagged panel modelwithin-person effect

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PMID41595090

DOI10.3390/bs16010150

PMCPMC12837956

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