The Impact of Short-Form Video Addiction on Sleep Quality: The Mediating Roles of Emotional, Cognitive, and Executive Components

With the rapid growth in the number of short-form video users, short-form video addiction (SVA) has drawn increasing attention due to its significant impact on individuals’ daily lives. This study examines the relationship between short-form video addiction and sleep quality, as well as the mediating mechanisms of social anxiety and self-control. Using the College Student Short-Form Video Addiction Scale, the Interaction Anxiousness Scale, the Brief Self-Control Scale, and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, we surveyed 677 Chinese college students. Correlation and mediation analyses were conducted using SPSS and the PROCESS macro. The findings revealed that SVA was negatively associated with sleep quality both directly and indirectly, with higher social anxiety and lower self-control mediating the indirect effect. By showing that addictive behavior is linked to its risk factors through affective, cognitive, and executive pathways, this study provides preliminarily elucidates how addictive behavior feeds back to reinforce its own risk factors proposed in the Interaction of Person–Affect–Cognition–Execution (I-PACE) model.