ArticleBehavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2026
Beyond Screen Time and Emotion Regulation: Social Trust as a Structural Pathway to Perceived Well-Being-A Competing-Models Analysis Among Chinese Youth.
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Youth well-being interventions in digital contexts overwhelmingly target individual emotional mechanisms, yet whether these actually outperform social-structural pathways when directly compared has remained untested. Using nationally representative Chinese youth data (N = 1967; 91.4% of young adults; China Family Panel Studies 2022) and a competing-models structural equation framework with 5000-iteration bootstrap resampling, we simultaneously tested three rival pathways linking screen time to well-being. Results decisively favored the social-structural model: the social trust pathway yielded the strongest indirect association (β = -0.030,
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