The effect of mindfulness on social media addiction among Chinese college students: A serial mediation model
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Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated social media addiction (SMA), making it urgent to find effective interventions for social media addiction. Evidence has shown that mindfulness might be an effective intervention for social media addiction. However, psychological mechanisms by which mindfulness reduce social media use remain unclear. Here, we further addressed this issue to examine whether attentional control and fear of missing out (FOMO) mediate the relationship between mindfulness and SMA. Methods: We recruited 446 college students from two universities in China and analyzed the data. Results: The results suggest that there are mediation effects of attentional control and FOMO between mindfulness and SMA through 3 paths: path 1, mindfulness → attention control → SMA (−0.04); path 2, mindfulness → FOMO → SMA (−0.22); and path 3, mindfulness → attention control → FOMO → SMA (−0.05). Discussion: Therefore, mindfulness-based interventions may be an effective way to alleviate social media addiction, especially mindfulness-based interventions targeting FOMO. At the end of the article, we also discussed the limitations of this study.
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Mindfulness-based approaches might offer more sustainable solutions for Instagram addiction.
“Research suggests that mindfulness-based approaches, which help users become more aware of their emotional responses to social media, might offer more sustainable solutions (Chang et al. 2023).”
From The Scrolling Paradox: Analyzing Instagram Addiction Patterns in The Digital Age (2025) · cites this paper as Chang et al. 2023
The Introduction (page not provided) says mindfulness-based interventions may help with social media addiction and describes mindfulness as awareness rather than overreaction. The Discussion (page not provided) links mindfulness to identifying and accepting fear of missing out. The paper does not establish that these approaches provide more sustainable solutions or address Instagram addiction specifically. (LLM, conf=0.86)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredMindfulness-based interventions have shown promise in helping users recognize and address their emotional triggers, leading to more sustainable reductions in compulsive use.
“In contrast, mindfulness-based interventions have shown promise in helping users recognize and address their emotional triggers, leading to more sustainable reductions in compulsive use (Bakhtiari et al. 2025;Chang et al. 2023).”
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The Introduction says mindfulness-based interventions may help with social media addiction, and the Discussion suggests that mindfulness may help people identify emotional precursors to addictive behavior. But identifying those precursors is presented as a hypothesis, not an established intervention effect. The Limitations state that this cross-sectional study tested no mindfulness intervention, so it cannot support the claim of more sustainable reductions in compulsive use. Page numbers are not available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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- Authors
- Chang, H., Meng, X., Li, Y., Liu, J., Yuan, W., Ni, J., & Li, C.
- Affiliations
- Guiyang Medical University (CN)
- Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Li, Chunlu
- Venue
- Frontiers in Psychiatry
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media SA
- Published
- 2023-03-23
- Volume
- 14
- Pages
- 1087909-1087909
- ISSN
- 1664-0640 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC10076863
- OpenAlex
- W4360619247
- Cited by
- 40
- References
- 76
- Citations by year
- 2026: 12 · 2025: 24 · 2024: 4
- FWCI
- 17.19
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Frontiers in Psychiatry (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- Guizhou Medical University (J-[2021]050; J-[2021]051)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (32260199)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Science Applications › Digital Media and Philosophy
- Keywords
- mindfulness, social media addiction, attentional control, fear of missing out, university students, COVID-19 pandemic, serial mediation, mindfulness-based interventions
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