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September 19, 2025Frontiers in Public HealthOpen Access

The relationship between social support and smartphone addiction among Chinese college students: the mediating role of loneliness and the moderating role of meaning in life

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JLJialei LiuYZYongli ZhangYZYu Zhang

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Cross-sectional analysis reveals loneliness mediates social support's role in smartphone addiction, with meaning in life moderating this relationship.

Key Points

  • Social support significantly reduces smartphone addiction risk, and loneliness plays a crucial mediating role.
  • Loneliness accounted for 64.71% of the total effect between social support and smartphone addiction.
  • Cross-sectional analysis using data from 2076 Chinese college students explored these social and psychological relationships.
  • Findings imply that enhancing social support can mitigate addiction risks, though greater meaning in life may heighten loneliness's impact.

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Liu et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d437f7713b0b5dfea77931https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1671800
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