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September 10, 2025Frontiers in PsychologyOpen Access

The relationship between shyness, loneliness, and mobile phone addiction in Chinese university students: a cross-lagged analysis

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JBJing BaiQCQi ChenCHC. Hu

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Cross-lagged analysis reveals mutual predictive relationships between shyness, loneliness, and mobile phone addiction in college students.

Key Points

  • Shyness and loneliness significantly predict mobile phone addiction, establishing a complex relationship.
  • The significant causal links include shyness impacting loneliness, while loneliness and mobile phone addiction influence each other.
  • Longitudinal data from 404 Chinese college students provided insights over a nine-month survey period.
  • Interventions aimed at reducing shyness and loneliness are essential for mitigating mobile phone addiction.

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Bai et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c23d81b210217d6478d864https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1626175
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