SYSTEMATIC REVIEW article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Addictive Behaviors
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1650148
The Relationships Among Self-Control, Psychological Resilience, and Digital Addiction in College Students: A Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modeling
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- 1normal college, Shihezi University, Shihezi, China
- 2shihezi university，Psychological Application Research Center, shihezi, China
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Purpose:Digital addiction adversely affects the physical and mental well-being of college students. Comprehensive studies demonstrate that self-control has an inhibitory influence on digital addiction, with psychological resilience acting as a crucial mediating variable connecting self-control and digital addiction. Nevertheless, meta-analytic evidence supporting this mediating role is limited. Materials and methods:A meta-analysis employing structural equation modelling was conducted to examine the influence of self-control on digital addiction among college students.It encompassed 84 research studies and a total sample of 60,966 participants. Results:The findings indicate that psychological resilience modulates the connection between self-control and digital addiction, whereas self-control significantly influences digital addiction. This data suggests that when individuals exert considerable self-control to manage scholastic constraints or social responsibilities, their psychological resources drastically deplete, resulting in heightened digital media consumption. Moreover, self-regulated behaviours bolster psychological resilience by fostering a collection of good experiences, thereby diminishing escapist reliance on digital media. Conclusions:These findings elucidate the mediating process between self-control and digital addiction in college students, offering new intervention options and enhancing research on restricted self-control theory.
Keywords: Self-Control, psychological resilience, Digital Addiction, Meta-analysis, Mediating effect
Received: 20 Jun 2025; Accepted: 29 Aug 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Zhao, Ma, Zhu, Zhang and Obaid. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Haidong Zhu, normal college, Shihezi University, Shihezi, China
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