Association between mobile phone addiction and social support among mainland Chinese teenagers: A meta-analysis
BackgroundMobile phone addiction brings many adverse effects to teenagers, such as physical health problems, emotional problems, and academic failure, and studies have found that social support is an important influencing factor. Therefore, considering institutional, cultural and economic difference...
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| description | BackgroundMobile phone addiction brings many adverse effects to teenagers, such as physical health problems, emotional problems, and academic failure, and studies have found that social support is an important influencing factor. Therefore, considering institutional, cultural and economic differences, we aimed to investigate the association between mobile phone addiction and social support among mainland Chinese teenagers, and explored the moderators affecting the relation.MethodsBased on the PRISMA method, a meta-analysis was applied to quantitatively synthesize relevant findings to obtain reliable estimates of effect sizes and conduct moderator analyses.ResultsIn total, 92 studies involving 59,716 participants and 92 effect sizes were identified by a systematic literature search. A significant low degree of negative correlation was found between mobile phone addiction and social support (r = −0.174, 95%CI = −0.213 to −0.134, p < 0.001, I2 = 96.1%). Moreover, the present meta-analysis observed significant moderating effects of participants' gender, and region on the association between social support and mobile phone addiction.ConclusionThis study suggests that the mobile phone addiction level of teenagers could be reduced by increasing social support, and actions to improve their social support levels should be proposed based on their gender and regional differences.Systematic review registrationhttps://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?ID=CRD42021276672. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c9094fd869884fd095a6545b2a6df51f2022-12-22T02:59:27ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Public Health2296-25652022-12-011010.3389/fpubh.2022.911560911560Association between mobile phone addiction and social support among mainland Chinese teenagers: A meta-analysisXiao Wan0Haitao Huang1Ruiying Jia2Dandan Liang3Guangli Lu4Chaoran Chen5Institute of Nursing and Health, College of Nursing and Health, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan, ChinaInstitute of Nursing and Health, College of Nursing and Health, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan, ChinaInstitute of Nursing and Health, College of Nursing and Health, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan, ChinaInstitute of Nursing and Health, College of Nursing and Health, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan, ChinaInstitute of Business Administration, School of Business, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan, ChinaInstitute of Nursing and Health, College of Nursing and Health, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan, ChinaBackgroundMobile phone addiction brings many adverse effects to teenagers, such as physical health problems, emotional problems, and academic failure, and studies have found that social support is an important influencing factor. Therefore, considering institutional, cultural and economic differences, we aimed to investigate the association between mobile phone addiction and social support among mainland Chinese teenagers, and explored the moderators affecting the relation.MethodsBased on the PRISMA method, a meta-analysis was applied to quantitatively synthesize relevant findings to obtain reliable estimates of effect sizes and conduct moderator analyses.ResultsIn total, 92 studies involving 59,716 participants and 92 effect sizes were identified by a systematic literature search. A significant low degree of negative correlation was found between mobile phone addiction and social support (r = −0.174, 95%CI = −0.213 to −0.134, p < 0.001, I2 = 96.1%). Moreover, the present meta-analysis observed significant moderating effects of participants' gender, and region on the association between social support and mobile phone addiction.ConclusionThis study suggests that the mobile phone addiction level of teenagers could be reduced by increasing social support, and actions to improve their social support levels should be proposed based on their gender and regional differences.Systematic review registrationhttps://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?ID=CRD42021276672.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.911560/fullmobile phone addictionsocial supportteenagersmeta-analysisreview |
| spellingShingle | Xiao Wan Haitao Huang Ruiying Jia Dandan Liang Guangli Lu Chaoran Chen Association between mobile phone addiction and social support among mainland Chinese teenagers: A meta-analysis Frontiers in Public Health mobile phone addiction social support teenagers meta-analysis review |
| title | Association between mobile phone addiction and social support among mainland Chinese teenagers: A meta-analysis |
| title_full | Association between mobile phone addiction and social support among mainland Chinese teenagers: A meta-analysis |
| title_fullStr | Association between mobile phone addiction and social support among mainland Chinese teenagers: A meta-analysis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Association between mobile phone addiction and social support among mainland Chinese teenagers: A meta-analysis |
| title_short | Association between mobile phone addiction and social support among mainland Chinese teenagers: A meta-analysis |
| title_sort | association between mobile phone addiction and social support among mainland chinese teenagers a meta analysis |
| topic | mobile phone addiction social support teenagers meta-analysis review |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.911560/full |
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