CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 241Impact of Technology on AdolescentsPerfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety StudiesStudent Stress and Coping

The DOI matches its Crossref record; 77 of the 79 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.

An Exploration of Problematic Smartphone Use among Chinese University Students: Associations with Academic Anxiety, Academic Procrastination, Self-Regulation and Subjective Wellbeing

Open access
Yang, Zeyang, Asbury, Kathryn, Griffiths, Mark D.·2019·International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction
DOI 10.1007/s11469-018-9961-1
Open this paper in CoChat — free accountOpen PDF

Abstract

Over the past decade, there have been an increasing number of studies that have investigated problematic and/or ‘addictive’ smartphone use. The present study explored the prevalence and correlates of problematic smartphone use (PSU) among Chinese university students. Few studies have investigated relationships between PSU and factors such as academic anxiety, academic procrastination, self-regulation, and subjective wellbeing. The present study proposed and tested a hypothetical model of relationships between PSU and these factors. A total of 475 Chinese university students completed a paper-based survey during class breaks. The survey comprised a battery of psychometric scales translated into Chinese translations examining the study variables (i.e., academic anxiety, academic procrastination, self-regulation, life satisfaction, and PSU). Path analysis was applied to test the hypothetical model. A good model fit was found (CFI = 1.00, RMSEA = 0.008), in which PSU predicted academic procrastination ( β = 0.21, p < 0.001) and academic anxiety ( β = 0.18, p < 0.01). Also, self-regulation predicted PSU ( β = − 0.35, p < 0.001), academic anxiety ( β = − 0.29, p < 0.001), academic procrastination ( β = 0.23, p < 0.001) and life satisfaction ( β = 0.23, p < 0.001). PSU mediated the relationships between self-regulation, and both academic anxiety and academic procrastination. The present study enhances our understanding of the role of problematic smartphone use in relation to academic behaviour, mental health and wellbeing of college students.

Overview

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1007/s11469-018-9961-1

Cites

77 of 77 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Verification

Claims the paper makes

We couldn’t retrieve this paper’s full text, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Citations

Cites

Research works printed but not linked: 3

  1. Byrne, B. M. (2010). Structural equation modelling with AMOS: Basic concepts, applications, and programming. New York: Routledge.
  2. Pekrun, R., Goetz, T., & Perry, R. P. (2005). Achievement Emotions Questionnaire (AEQ). User’s manual. Munich: Department of Psychology, University of Munich.
  3. Wang, H., Huang, H., & Wu, H. M. (2014). Relationship between personality and mobile phone addiction: A mediating role of social anxiety. Chinese Journal of Clinical Psychology, 3, 447–450.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

See all 241

Related

See all

Metadata

Authors
Yang, Z., Asbury, K., & Griffiths, M. D.
Affiliations
  • University of York (GB)
  • Nottingham Trent University (GB)
Corresponding author
Yang, Zeyang
ORCID
Venue
International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2018-07-09
Volume
17
Issue
3
Pages
596-614
ISSN
  • 1557-1874 (ISSN-L)
  • 1557-1882
DOI
10.1007/s11469-018-9961-1
OpenAlex
W2874553049
Cited by
241
References
79
Citations by year
2026: 18 · 2025: 34 · 2024: 31 · 2023: 46 · 2022: 43 · 2021: 40 · 2020: 20 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 1
FWCI
39.26
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York) (acceptedVersion, cc-by)
  • Nottingham Trent University's Institutional Repository (Nottingham Trent Repository) (acceptedVersion)
Funders
University of York
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Student Stress and Coping
Keywords
smartphone addiction, academic anxiety, academic procrastination, self-regulation, subjective well-being, life satisfaction, university students, Chinese students, academic behavior, mental health

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review