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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Mental Health
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1454217
This article is part of the Research Topic The Intersection of Psychology, Healthy Behaviors, and its Outcomes View all 12 articles

The Impact of Smartphone Dependence on College Stud ents' Sleep Quality: The Chain-Mediated Role of Negativ e Emotions and Health-Promoting Behaviors

Provisionally accepted

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    Objective: Sleep disturbances among college students have become a significant issue affecting their daily lives. This study aims to explore the relationship between s martphone dependence and sleep quality and examine the mediating roles of n egative emotions and health-promoting behaviors. Methods: A total of 23,652 co llege students were included in the study, and 21,314 valid questionnaires were collect ed. The survey assessed demographic factors, smartphone dependence, sleep quality, negative emotions, and health-promoting behaviors. A chain mediation analysis was conducted to examine the relationships among these factors. Results: Smartphone dependence was significantly positively correlated with sleep quality (r=0.272, P <0.001) and negative emotions (r=0.414, P<0.001), and significantly negatively c orrelated with health-promoting behaviors (r=-0.178, P<0.001). Sleep quality was positively correlated with negative emotions (r=0.472, P<0.001) and negatively correlated with health-promoting behaviors (r=-0.218, P<0.001).Smartphone dependence was a significant positive predictor of sleep quality. Moreover, nega tive emotions and health-promoting behaviors influenced the relationship bet ween smartphone dependence and sleep quality. The total effect, direct effect, and in direct effect values were 0.304, 0.122, and 0.170, respectively. Conclusion: Diffe rent demographic factors (such as gender and place of residence) can lead to variations in different variables. Smartphone dependence and negative emotions have a positive impact on sleep quality among college students, while health-promoting behaviors hav e a negative impact. Smartphone dependence directly and positively affects sleep quali ty and can also influence it indirectly through the mediating effects of negative emotio ns and health-promoting behaviors, both individually and in a chain-like manner.

    Keywords: college students, Health-promoting behaviors, Negative emotions, sleep quality, Smartphone dependence

    Received: 24 Jun 2024; Accepted: 02 Sep 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 YunFei, Liu, Huang, Liu, Tian, Wu, Lan and Peng. 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: Li Peng, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

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