ArticleScientific reports2026
Associations between smartphone addiction, anxiety, depression, and academic performance among university students.
Article in Scientific reports, 2026. 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
7 authors.
Funding
Abstract
In today’s globalized world, technology significantly influences daily life. While it offers convenience, it also brings challenges. The growing prevalence of smartphone use has raised concerns regarding smartphone addiction. This study examined the relationship between smartphone addiction, anxiety, depression, and academic performance among university students. A total of 1,846 students (1,362 females and 484 males; mean age = 19.62 ± 1.11) participated by completing an online questionnaire that included the Smartphone Addiction Scale-Malay version (SAS-M), Beck Anxiety Inventory-Malay version (BAI-M), and Beck Depression Inventory-Malay version (BDI-M). Findings revealed that higher levels of smartphone addiction were significantly associated with greater symptoms of anxiety and depression. In contrast, no direct association was observed between smartphone addiction and academic performance. These results indicate that while smartphone addiction may not directly impair academic performance, it poses substantial risks to students’ psychological well-being. Intervention programs are necessary to promote digital well-being and reduce the psychological impact of excessive smartphone use among students. Given the cross-sectional design and the absence of several potentially important confounding and mediating variables, the findings should be interpreted as preliminary and warrant confirmation in future longitudinal and multivariable studies.
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.