Author(s)

Qiong Zhao ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Zhengzhou University of Industrial Technology, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450000, China

Corresponding Author

Qiong Zhao

ABSTRACT

This study took college students from four universities in Zhengzhou, Henan Province as the research subjects. The research tools included the Cell Phone Addiction Scale, Self-Assessment Scale for Anxiety (SAS), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index Scale (PSQI) and Rumination Thinking Scale. Through online and offline questionnaires, 1053 valid questionnaires were obtained. After statistical analysis, anxiety was found to play a partial mediating role between cell phone addiction and college students' sleep quality. In addition to directly affecting the sleep quality of college students, smartphone addiction can also indirectly affect the sleep quality of college students through the mediating role of anxiety. The direct effect of rumination thinking on sleep quality and the moderating effect of the second half of the path of the mediating effect of anxiety were found to be significant through the mediation model test with moderation.

KEYWORDS

Smartphone addiction; college students; sleep quality

CITE THIS PAPER

Qiong Zhao, Smartphone addiction and college students' sleep quality: Analysis of mediating and moderating effects. Applied & Educational Psychology (2023) Vol. 4: 86-93. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/appep.2023.041014.

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