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Record W4412141062 · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1442707

Influence of physical activity and mobile phone addiction tendency on depression among Chinese undergraduates

2025· article· en· W4412141062 on OpenAlexaff
Baolin Dong, Li He

Bibliographic record

VenueFrontiers in Psychology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicImpact of Technology on Adolescents
Canadian institutionsEducation and Early Childhood Development
FundersNational Social Science Fund of China
KeywordsPsychologyAddictionDepression (economics)Mobile phoneSmartphone addictionPhysical activityClinical psychologyApplied psychologyPsychiatryPhysical medicine and rehabilitation

Abstract

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Objective: This study explored the influence of physical activity (PA) and mobile phone addiction tendency (MPAT) on depression among Chinese undergraduate students, testing the mediating effect of MPAT and the moderating effect of gender. Methods: The International Physical Activity Questionnaire-Short Form (IPAQ-SF), the Mobile Phone Addiction Tendency Scale (MPATS), and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CESD-S) were administered to 2,121 Chinese undergraduates (46.25% male, aged 19.74 ± 1.822 years) from 10 public and private colleges and universities. Analyses on the mediating effects of mobile phone addiction tendency and the moderating effects of gender were conducted using the PROCESS macro (Version 3.5). Results: < 0.001). The mediating effect of MPAT on PA affecting depression was significant, with a mediating effect size of 15.0%. Moreover, gender moderated the influence of PA on depression, and it also moderated the influence of MPAT on depression. Conclusion: The conclusions corroborate and clarify that MPAT partially mediated the association between PA and depression, and the mediation effects were moderated via gender. This indicates that increasing undergraduates' PA level could effectively avoid MPAT and thus alleviate their depression. Although caution needs to be taken when inferring causal relationships in a cross-sectional design, the present study advances understanding of how undergraduates' PA was related to depression. It also illustrates that educators and parents should pay more attention to undergraduates' PA.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.014
Threshold uncertainty score0.029

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.006
GPT teacher head0.337
Teacher spread0.331 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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