The role of anxiety factors in predicting smartphone addiction mediated by metacognition among university students: a two-stage SEM-ANN approach.

ABSTRACT: This study aims to investigate the associative factors related to smartphone addiction among university students and to further examine the mediating roles of positive and negative metacognition in the relationship between anxiety factors and smartphone addiction. The researchers randomly surveyed 760 university students from three universities in Henan province of China using a structured questionnaire to measure their self-reported responses on six constructs: academic anxiety, social anxiety, future anxiety, positive metacognition, negative metacognition, and smartphone addiction. By applying the Structural Equation Modeling-Artificial Neural Network (SEM-ANN) approach, the study interprets the non-compensatory and nonlinear relationships between predictor factors and smartphone addicti

SUBMITTER: Wang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11846160 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature