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TY - JOUR
AU - Jawariya Amir,
AU - Anam Naeem*,
AU - Mehlaqa Riaz ,
PY - 2025/12/02
Y2 - 2026/04/17
TI - Smartphone Addiction, Loneliness, And Mindfulness Among Young Adults: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17786855
JF - `
JA - ASSAJ
VL - 4
IS - 02
SE - Articles
DO -
UR - https://www.assajournal.com/index.php/36/article/view/1145
SP - 2159-2170
AB - <p><em>The study aimed at exploring the relationship between smartphone addiction, </em><em>loneliness</em><em>, and mindfulness among young adults. A sample of 200 young adults (Age range 19-34 years) was recruited from different college and universities of Lahore in 2024 through convenient sampling. Smartphone Addiction Scale (SAS-SV; Kwon, Kim, Cho & Yang, 2013; α = 0.83), UCLA loneliness Scale (Russell, Peplau & Ferguson, 1978; α = 0.92), Mindfulness Scale (Brown & Ryan, 2003; α = 0.87) were used to measure smartphone addiction, loneliness, and mindfulness respectively. The data was gathered, refined and analyzed with descriptive analysis, correlation t-test and regression analyses. The Results revealed smartphone addiction was significantly negatively correlated with mindfulness (r= -.301**, p<.01) and significantly positively correlated with loneliness (r=0.314**, p<.01). mindfulness and loneliness were also significantly negatively correlated (r= -.505**, p<.01). No gender differences were observed on all study variables. A simple linear regression analysis revealed that higher smartphone addiction significantly predicted greater loneliness, [β = 0.16, t(198) = 2.79, p < .01], and lower mindfulness, [β = –0.12, t(198) = –2.46, p = .01]. The study carries important implications for educational institutions, clinicians, and policymakers, highlighting the need to address problematic smartphone use among young adults to help prevent its psychological and social consequences.</em></p><p><strong><em>Keywords:</em></strong><em> Smartphone Addiction, Loneliness, Mindfulness, Psychological and Social consequences, uncontrolled digitalization </em></p>
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