Mobile phone addiction and depression among Chinese medical students: the mediating role of sleep quality and the moderating role of peer relationships

Feng, Ziyi; Diao, Yucong; Ma, Hongfei; Liu, Minghui; Long, Meijun; Zhao, Shuang; Wu, Hui; Wang, Yang

doi:10.1186/s12888-022-04183-9

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“…This study confirms that family economic situation affects students’ sleep, and students with poorer family economic situation have more serious sleep disorders, probably due to the fact that students with poorer economic situation have more stressful life and are more likely to have anxiety and affect the quality of sleep. The higher the frequency of purposelessly looking at cell phones and the longer the daily time spent looking at cell phones in this study, the higher the detection rate of sleep disorders, which is consistent with the results of domestic and international studies ( Monma et al, 2018 ; Feng et al, 2022 ), probably due to the fact that anxious students are more inclined to use cell phones to escape from difficulties to relieve negative emotions, which also affects the sleep time and sleep quality and leads to sleep deprivation. In colleges and universities, it has been the norm for undergraduates to have a cell phone in their hands, and students often play with their cell phones in class, which not only affects students’ learning effect but also makes myopia more and more serious among undergraduates nowadays, therefore, colleges and universities should restrict students from playing with their cell phones in class, and relevant departments of schools, such as academic affairs office and student work office, should strengthen the supervision of students and make corresponding system documents to restrict cell phones in class.…”

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Study on lifestyle habits affecting sleep disorders at the undergraduate education stage in Xuzhou City, China

Liu²,

Guo³

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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BackgroundIn China, undergraduate students face both academic and career selection pressures, sleep is an important physiological process for them. Investigate the physical exercise, sleep quality of undergraduate students in the education stage in Xuzhou City, and analyze the factors affecting their sleep quality, to promote the health education and psychological health of undergraduate students.Materials and methodsThe Physical Activity Rating Scale-3 (PARS-3), the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), and the demographic information questionnaire were used to survey a whole-group sample of four undergraduate colleges and universities (Xuzhou Institute of Engineering, Xuzhou Medical University, China University of Mining and Technology, Jiangsu Normal University) in Xuzhou by cluster sampling, the general characteristics including gender, grade, height, weight, domicile, race, economic income, etc., were collected, and the data were analyzed and processed using chi-square tests and multi-factor logistic regression.Results3,366 valid questionnaires were collected from four undergraduate colleges and universities, including 1,355 males and 2,011 females. The detection rate of exercise in Jiangsu Normal University was lower than that in other universities, and the detection rate of sleep disorders was higher than that in other universities. Xuzhou Medical University, the highest detection rate of large exercise, Xuzhou Institute of Technology, the lowest detection rate of sleep disorders. There were significant differences in the detection rate of large amount of exercise among college students of different genders, grades, body types, and majors (χ2 = 259.172, P < 0.001; χ2 = 34.473, P < 0.001; χ2 = 36.026, P < 0.001; χ2 = 57.908, P < 0.001). There were significant differences in the detection rate of sleep disorders among college students with different gender, grade, family economic status, daily cell phone use time, cell phone purposeless usage, and exercise level (χ2 = 5.806, P = 0.016; χ2 = 47.5, P < 0.001; χ2 = 28.949, P < 0.001; χ2 = 55.866, P < 0.001; χ2 = 147.101, P < 0.001; χ2 = 9.129, P = 0.010). Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that grade, family economic status, cell phone use time, cell phone purposeless usage is the main influencing factors of sleep disorders in college students.ConclusionThe sleep problems of undergraduates are serious, especially in Jiangsu Normal University. Scientific and appropriate exercise is an important measure to solve the sleep problems of undergraduates. Colleges and universities should actively carry out health education, college students living habits such as cell phone use should be guided training.

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Study on lifestyle habits affecting sleep disorders at the undergraduate education stage in Xuzhou City, China

Liu²,

Guo³

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…The main theme of Sleep-Quality (0.57, 0.86) was found to be related to Sleep-Disorders, Stress, Insomnia, Medical-Students, Mobile-Phone-Addiction, Peer-Relationships, Problematic-Social-Media-Use, and Quality-of-Life themes. These studies on Sleep-Disorders ( Jiang et al, 2022 ), Stress ( She et al, 2021 ), Insomnia ( Pohl et al, 2021 ), Medical-Students ( Gong et al, 2021 ), Mobile-Phone-Addiction ( Ivanova et al, 2020 ), Peer-Relationships ( Feng et al, 2022 ), Problematic-Social-Media-Use ( Majeed et al, 2020 ), and Quality-of-Life ( Pohl et al, 2021 ) can be listed to illustrate the sub-themes in the Sleep-Quality cluster network.…”

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A comprehensive review on emerging trends in the dynamic evolution of digital addiction and depression

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IntroductionUsing digital addiction as an umbrella term to cover any type of addictions to digital technologies such as the internet, smartphones, social media, or video games, the current study aimed to reveal the intellectual structure and evolution of research addressing digital addiction-depression relationship.MethodsThe study combined bibliometric and science mapping analysis methods for this purpose. Data for the study was gathered from Web of Science Core Collection after a comprehensive process of data search/extraction, and 241 articles were included in the final data set. A period-based, comparative science mapping analysis was performed using the SciMAT software.ResultsThe analysis of data over three periods, Period 1 (1983-2016), Period 2 (2017-2019), and Period 3 (2020-2022) showed that internet addiction was the most significant theme across all three periods, which was followed by social media addiction. Depression, which emerged as a significant theme during Period 1, was later covered under anxiety disorder theme. Research interest was mostly on factors related to both addiction and depression such as cognitive distortion, insomnia, loneliness, self-esteem, social support, alexithymia, as well as cybervictimization or academic performance.DiscussionThe results suggested that much research is warranted on the digital addiction-depression relationship in different age cohorts, especially children and elderly. Similarly, the current analysis showed that this line of research particularly focused on internet, gaming and social media addiction, and evidence with regard to other types of digital addiction or related compulsive behaviors was almost absent. In addition, research was mostly inclined to understanding cause-effect relationships, which is significant, but preventive strategies seemed to be barely addressed. Likewise, the smartphone addiction-depression relationship arguably garnered less research interest, so future research would contribute to the field in this respect.

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“…The development of the 5G mobile communication technology, and mobile functions (e.g., cameras, sensors, & gyroscopes) has empowered smartphones to be responsive to information retrieved directly from users’ physical surroundings [ 1 ]. In China, around 932 million users now rely on mobile phones to access the Internet [ 2 ]. These users can achieve various online interactions and services thanks to the wireless data networks that enable the development and launch of software such as location-based service apps (l-apps) [ 3 ].…”

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Enhancing tourist loyalty through location-based service apps: Exploring the roles of digital literacy, perceived ease of use, perceived autonomy, virtual-content congruency, and tourist engagement

Xiong,

Zhang

2024

PLoS ONE

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Advanced mobile functions and empowered smartphones have provided tourists with various location-based service apps that reshaped the business model of the tourism sector. Despite their importance to tourists, l-apps still have limitations, such as ignorance of tourist preferences and the mismatch between app introduction and tourist experience, therefore affecting tourist loyalty to destinations. Understanding tourist-oriented factors thus becomes critical for l-app designers and service providers. This study integrates the technology-acceptance model (TAM) into a unique context to examine the roles of digital literacy, perceived ease of use, perceived autonomy, virtual-content congruence, and tourist engagement on tourist loyalty. Our empirical test of a structural equation model based on a randomly recruited 319 customers found that tourists’ digital literacy influences their engagement and perceived ease of use, which mediates the relationship between digital literacy and engagement; tourists’ perceived autonomy influences their engagement. Moreover, we found the moderating role of information-experience congruency between digital literacy, perceived ease of use, and perceived autonomy and tourist engagement, thus contributing to the boundary conditions of the TAM model. Finally, tourist engagement contributes to tourist loyalty. The study contributes to the integration of the technology acceptance model with a tourist orientation. The findings also offer meaningful, practical implications and recommendations on l-app design to stakeholders of tourist destinations.

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Mobile phone addiction and depression among Chinese medical students: the mediating role of sleep quality and the moderating role of peer relationships

Cited by 18 publications

References 49 publications

Study on lifestyle habits affecting sleep disorders at the undergraduate education stage in Xuzhou City, China

Study on lifestyle habits affecting sleep disorders at the undergraduate education stage in Xuzhou City, China

A comprehensive review on emerging trends in the dynamic evolution of digital addiction and depression

Enhancing tourist loyalty through location-based service apps: Exploring the roles of digital literacy, perceived ease of use, perceived autonomy, virtual-content congruency, and tourist engagement

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