What question did this study set out to answer?

December 10, 2025Frontiers in PsychologyOpen Access

The relationship between mobile phone addiction, bedtime procrastination, and campus-based physical activity: a longitudinal follow-up study based on a college student population

View Full Paper

Ask AI

Bookmark

Authors

Longitudinal follow-up shows mobile phone addiction negatively affects physical activity in university students, indicating health risks.

To explore how mobile phone addiction, bedtime procrastination, and campus-based physical activity are interconnected among university students.
Two longitudinal surveys of 376 university students at 3-month intervals.
Utilized the Mobile Phone Addiction Scale, Bedtime Procrastination Scale, and Physical Activity Rating Scale.
Applied the cross-lagged panel model to analyze predictive relationships and mechanisms.
Mobile phone addiction positively correlates with bedtime procrastination and negatively with physical activity.
Longitudinal data suggests a 'vicious cycle' where mobile phone addiction and bedtime procrastination mutually influence each other.
Mobile phone addiction initially contributes to a decline in physical activity.

Deng et al. (2025) studied this question.

View Full Paper

Ask AI

Bookmark