Alexithymia and mobile phone addiction among college students: Mediation by boredom proneness and anxiety

Brief Mindfulness Training Mitigates College Students’ Mobile Phone Addiction: The Mediating Effect of the Sense of Meaning in Life

“…Moreover, college students of different genders and ages have varying levels of mobile phone addiction. 20 By conducting literature review on relevant empirical studies, this study has found that mindfulness training has an impact on the addictive behavior and the sense of meaning in life; meanwhile, meaning in life also has a predicting effect on addictive behavior, which is in line with the paradigm that meaning in life may have a mediating effect on the relationship between mindfulness training and mobile phone addiction. 21 Furthermore, previous studies on college students’ mindfulness training mostly took a 7- or 8-week intervention approach, and the loss rate of the subjects selected from college students with heavy course tasks was usually high.Some studies have shown 22 that even brief mindfulness training can effectively change individuals’ mental state, and brief training is more convenient, more widely applicable to various groups, and can help college students regulate their mental state in a short period of time.In summary, on the basis of controlling for unrelated variables such as gender and age, this study intends to explore the impacts of brief mindfulness training on college students’ mobile phone addiction and their sense of meaning in life, while also investigating the mediating effect of mindfulness training on mitigating college students’ mobile phone addiction.…”

“…Moreover, college students of different genders and ages have varying levels of mobile phone addiction. 20 By conducting literature review on relevant empirical studies, this study has found that mindfulness training has an impact on the addictive behavior and the sense of meaning in life; meanwhile, meaning in life also has a predicting effect on addictive behavior, which is in line with the paradigm that meaning in life may have a mediating effect on the relationship between mindfulness training and mobile phone addiction. 21 Furthermore, previous studies on college students' mindfulness training mostly took a 7-or 8-week intervention approach, and the loss rate of the subjects selected from college students with heavy course tasks was usually high.…”