Combined exercise improved phone-addiction questionnaire scores in a college study
Students assigned to badminton plus fancy rope skipping improved more than comparison groups, but the abstract does not report the size of the score differences.
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The 30-second takeaway
The combined exercise group showed greater improvement in phone-addiction questionnaire scores than both the badminton-only and usual-lifestyle groups. Reported gains covered withdrawal, loss of control, inefficiency and escapism. The findings concern students selected for problematic phone use; they do not establish that the same program would help all students or produce lasting changes.
This abstract-based account has an unresolved design description: the study is called quasi-experimental but reports random allocation. Score differences, confidence intervals and follow-up beyond the intervention are not provided.
What researchers found
Mobile Phone Addiction Index scores
After 12 weeks, combined exercise outperformed badminton alone and usual lifestyle; reported statistical significance: P < 0.05. Score differences were not supplied.
What was measured
Participants completed questionnaires on phone addiction, emotion regulation and coping before and after the program. The outcome was a questionnaire score; the abstract does not report changes in objectively recorded phone use.
A possible pathway
A statistical mediation analysis linked better emotion regulation and more positive coping with improved addiction scores. That pattern is consistent with the proposed pathway, but it does not by itself prove how the intervention worked.
The original publication
The effectiveness of physical activity intervention on mobile phone addiction in college students: the chain mediating role of emotion regulation strategies and positive coping style.
Meng S, Bai G, Shen P et al.
BMC Public Health · 2025
- PubMed ID
- 40999393
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