… sample of Chinese adults in Hong Kong, … adults of all ages. The associations can be
explained by the time displacement hypothesis that posits a possible tradeoff between smartphone …

… Younger adults were the most susceptible to the association of SNS time with PSU severity.
Our study provided reminders to smartphone users of the addiction potential of screen time …

… investigated the effects of problematic smartphone use (PSU) in … role of family communication
in Hong Kong Chinese adults. … role of family communication in Hong Kong Chinese adults. …

… Results from this study cannot accurately represent the smartphone usage situation of all
the older people in China. This study did not consider the regional diversity in …

… Chinese adults between February 24 and March 15, 2020. We used the widely popular Chinese
… districts within a large metropolitan city in Eastern China (Tianjin, population = 12 million…

… smartphone use frequency and PSU severity. FOMO significantly mediated relations between
anxiety and both smartphone use … Our focus was on a Chinese sample of young adults, as …

… Second, we did not collect detailed information on the pattern of smartphone use among
the users, which would have been helpful for interpreting the complex relationship between …

… However, the negative aspects of smartphone use, such as smartphone addiction, have …
to explore the symptoms of smartphone addiction among working adults in China and the …

… of regional samples of emerging adults (eg, college students… representative sample of Chinese
young adolescents and their … the potential mediating roles of smartphone use time (SUT) …

… excessive Internet use (eg, IGD and problematic smartphone use). … to smartphone use”,
“The people around me tell me that I use my smartphone too much”, and “Having my smartphone …