The influence of smartphone addiction on sleep quality among college students: The parallel mediating roles of perceived stress and health-promoting lifestyle.
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Jan 1, 2026
This cross-sectional study surveyed 2,317 college students to examine associations between smartphone addiction and sleep quality. Smartphone addiction was associated with poorer sleep quality, and mediation analyses indicated that higher perceived stress and lower health-promoting lifestyle scores partially…
Structural and Functional Neural Correlates in Individuals with Excessive Smartphone Use: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
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Dec 5, 2022
This systematic review and meta-analysis synthesized observational MRI studies comparing excessive smartphone users with regular users. It reports smaller brain volumes in excessive smartphone users, especially in subcortical regions, and notes that the association was more pronounced in adolescents than adults. It…
Structural and functional correlates of smartphone addiction
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Jan 1, 2020
This cross-sectional MRI study compared individuals meeting psychometric criteria for smartphone addiction (n=22) with controls (n=26). It reports lower gray matter volume in several regions (including left anterior insula and parahippocampal cortex) and lower intrinsic activity in the right anterior cingulate cortex…