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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychol.
Sec. Mindfulness
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1400327

Effectiveness of Brief Online Mindfulness-Based Intervention on Different Types of Mobile Phone Addiction: Mechanisms of Influence of Trait Mindfulness

Provisionally accepted
Zhiyu Zhang Zhiyu Zhang 1Lei Wu Lei Wu 1,2*Chu Lu Chu Lu 1*Tianming Guan Tianming Guan 1*
  • 1 Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China
  • 2 Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences, Institute of Psychology and Behavior, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China

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    It is common for college students to suffer from mobile phone addiction, which can seriously affect their physical and mental health. The current study looked at the impact of a brief online mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) on mobile phone addiction to address this problem. The mechanisms behind the influence of trait mindfulness (TM) on this process were also investigated in the current study. Subjects were split into two groups for a randomized controlled trial: an experimental group and a control group. During brief online MBI, online assessments of mobile social networking addiction (MSNA), mobile game addiction (MGA), mobile information acquisition addiction (MIAA), and mobile short-form video addiction (MSVA) as well as TM were completed. The present study examined the effectiveness of the brief online MBI with a two-factor repeated measures ANOVA and explored the effects of TM on the four types of mobile phone addiction with hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) after a brief online MBI. Results revealed that the experimental group receiving brief online MBI showed a significant decrease in MSNA, MGA, MIAA, and MSVA at the post-test level compared to the pre-test. TM negatively predicted MSNA, MGA, MIAA, and MSVA. The present study found that the brief online mindfulness-based intervention can effectively reduce four types of mobile phone addiction. In addition, the present study revealed that as the levels of TM increased, all four types of mobile phone addiction decreased.

    Keywords: mindfulness1, Brief Online Mindfulness-based intervention2, Mobile phone addiction3, Trait Mindfulness4, Hierarchical Linear Modeling5

    Received: 13 Mar 2024; Accepted: 10 Jan 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Zhang, Wu, Lu and Guan. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Lei Wu, Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences, Institute of Psychology and Behavior, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300074, China
    Chu Lu, Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China
    Tianming Guan, Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China

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