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Effectiveness of brief mindfulness intervention for college students’ problematic smartphone use: The mediating role of self-control
| العنوان: | Effectiveness of brief mindfulness intervention for college students’ problematic smartphone use: The mediating role of self-control |
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| المؤلفون: | Liu, Fengbo, Zhang, Zhongqiu, Liu, Shuqiang, Feng, Zhantao |
| المساهمون: | Taniguchi, Hirokazu, Shanghai Science and Technology Committee, MOE (Ministry of Education in China) Project of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| المصدر: | PLOS ONE ; volume 17, issue 12, page e0279621 ; ISSN 1932-6203 |
| بيانات النشر: | Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
| سنة النشر: | 2022 |
| المجموعة: | PLOS Publications (via CrossRef) |
| الوصف: | Background Mainland China has the most smartphone users worldwide, especially among college students, while mindfulness intervention can significantly alleviate the level of problematic smartphone use. We examined the effects of a brief mindfulness intervention on problematic smartphone use and investigated if this effect is mediated by self-control. Methods Participants were recruited randomly from a university in Beijing of China. Forty-four college students were assigned to a mindfulness group or a control group. The mindfulness group took part in a brief (30 min) single-session mindfulness intervention. The control group was instructed to listen to a neutral news audio recording for the same duration (30 min). The Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory, Mobile Phone Addiction Tendency Scale, and Self-control Scale were used to measure state mindfulness, problematic smartphone use, and self-control of college students at pre-intervention and post-intervention, respectively. Results Two-way repeated-measures ANOVA revealed that the mindfulness group had significant improvements in state mindfulness ( p = .049) and self-control ( p = .012), and had significant alleviation in problematic smartphone use ( p < .001) at post-intervention. In the regression model, self-control had a mediating effect between mindfulness intervention and problematic smartphone use (95% CI [0.490, 7.216]). Conclusions A brief single-session mindfulness intervention can alleviate the level of problematic smartphone use and increase the level of state mindfulness and self-control compared to the control group. Self-control can completely mediate the efficacy of the mindfulness intervention in reducing problematic smartphone use. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0279621 |
| الاتاحة: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279621 https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279621 |
| Rights: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.81440B13 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0279621 |
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