Association between mobile phone addiction and social support among mainland Chinese teenagers: A meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mobile phone addiction brings many adverse effects to teenagers, such as physical health problems, emotional problems, and academic failure, and studies have found that social support is an important influencing factor. Therefore, considering institutional, cultural and economic differences, we aimed to investigate the association between mobile phone addiction and social support among mainland Chinese teenagers, and explored the moderators affecting the relation.

Methods

Based on the PRISMA method, a meta-analysis was applied to quantitatively synthesize relevant findings to obtain reliable estimates of effect sizes and conduct moderator analyses.

Results

In total, 92 studies involving 59,716 participants and 92 effect sizes were identified by a systematic

SUBMITTER: Wan X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9798221 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature