Li Lu, Wang Hengte, Liu Rugang, Nicholas Stephen, Maitland Elizabeth
Business School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
School of Business Administration, Jiangsu Vocational Institute of Commerce, Nanjing, China.
Sci Rep. 2025 Jul 9;15(1):24696. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-09864-5.
A global problem, mobile phone dependence causes physical and psychological problems for college students. We trial and assess a simple intervention strategy, the daily recording of mobile phone use to mitigate mobile phone dependency among Chinese college students. A randomized controlled trial was conducted among 110 college students, with the daily recording of mobile phone use over two weeks in the intervention group. Using Wilcoxon rank sum test and multivariate linear regression analysis, the effect of the daily recording intervention on reducing mobile phone dependence was assessed. After the daily recording intervention, the mobile phone dependence score of the intervention group decreased from 30.64 ± 9.9 to 24.44 ± 10.31, significantly lower than the control group (32.11 ± 8.51, P < 0.01). The total mobile phone using time declined from 6.22 ± 2.81 to 5.05 ± 2.85 h and was also lower than that of the control group (6.83 ± 2.98, P < 0.05). The mobile phone time watching videos and playing games dropped from 1.96 ± 1.70 to 1.09 ± 1.35 h and was lower than that of the control group (1.96 ± 1.4, P < 0.01). The results of linear regression indicate that daily recording intervention and regular exercise reduced mobile phone dependence significantly (P < 0.05). Daily recording of mobile phone use was a simple, but highly effective, effective intervention strategy reducing mobile phone dependence among Chinese college students. Daily exercise also reduced mobile phone dependence.
手机依赖是一个全球性问题，会给大学生带来身体和心理问题。我们尝试并评估了一种简单的干预策略，即每日记录手机使用情况，以减轻中国大学生的手机依赖。对110名大学生进行了一项随机对照试验，干预组连续两周每日记录手机使用情况。采用Wilcoxon秩和检验和多元线性回归分析，评估每日记录干预对降低手机依赖的效果。经过每日记录干预后，干预组的手机依赖得分从30.64±9.9降至24.44±10.31，显著低于对照组（32.11±8.51，P<0.01）。手机总使用时间从6.22±2.81小时降至5.05±2.85小时，也低于对照组（6.83±2.98，P<0.05）。观看视频和玩游戏的手机使用时间从1.96±1.70小时降至1.09±1.35小时，低于对照组（1.96±1.4，P<0.01）。线性回归结果表明，每日记录干预和定期锻炼显著降低了手机依赖（P<0.05）。每日记录手机使用情况是一种简单但高效的干预策略，可降低中国大学生的手机依赖。每日锻炼也能降低手机依赖。
