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March 3, 2026PeerJ3 citationsOpen Access

The relationship between physical activity and smartphone addiction in Chinese college students—a latent profile analysis

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BTBao Le TaoHCHao ChenYJYueyan Jiang

Key Points

  • Positive physical activity significantly alleviates smartphone addiction among students, promoting better mental health.
  • Interventions focused on increasing physical activity can play a crucial role in reducing dependence on smartphones.
  • Latent profile analysis was used to identify relationships between levels of physical activity and smartphone addiction.
  • These findings suggest that promoting physical activity may enable healthier smartphone usage patterns among students.

Abstract

The results suggested that positive PA can effectively alleviate the negative impacts of smartphone addiction. Therefore, interventions aimed at increasing PA could be beneficial in reducing smartphone dependence.

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Tao et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69a75b7fc6e9836116a22ebbhttps://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20724
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