ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2023
The effect of mindfulness on social media addiction among Chinese college students: A serial mediation model.
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- Network Structure of Nomophobia, Fear of Missing Out, Mindful Attention, and Happiness Among University Students.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Latent profile analysis of mindfulness and experiential avoidance associated with social media use disorder.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- The impact of social media use on college students' mental health: a narrative review.Frontiers in public health · 2026Review
- Mindfulness-Based Intervention in Schools: Addressing Social Media Burnout and Enhancing Well-Being in Adolescents.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The impact of academic anxiety on smartphone addiction among college students: the mediating role of self-regulatory fatigue and the moderating role of mindfulness.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- A Multi- Mediation Analysis on the Impact of Social Media and Internet Addiction on University and High School Students' Mental Health Through Social Capital and Mindfulness.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Effectiveness of brief online mindfulness-based intervention on different types of mobile phone addiction: mechanisms of influence of trait mindfulness.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The impact of multidimensional excessive social media use on academic performance: the moderating role of mindfulness.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Mindfulness as a Path to Freedom from Internet Addiction in Adolescents: A Narrative Review.Cureus · 2024Review
- Does social media addiction disrupt mindful attention of students in health colleges at a university in Saudi Arabia?Journal of family & community medicineArticle
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Abstract
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated social media addiction (SMA), making it urgent to find effective interventions for social media addiction. Evidence has shown that mindfulness might be an effective intervention for social media addiction. However, psychological mechanisms by which mindfulness reduce social media use remain unclear. Here, we further addressed this issue to examine whether attentional control and fear of missing out (FOMO) mediate the relationship between mindfulness and SMA. Methods: We recruited 446 college students from two universities in China and analyzed the data. Results: The results suggest that there are mediation effects of attentional control and FOMO between mindfulness and SMA through 3 paths: path 1, mindfulness → attention control → SMA (-0.04); path 2, mindfulness → FOMO → SMA (-0.22); and path 3, mindfulness → attention control → FOMO → SMA (-0.05). Discussion: Therefore, mindfulness-based interventions may be an effective way to alleviate social media addiction, especially mindfulness-based interventions targeting FOMO. At the end of the article, we also discussed the limitations of this study.
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