The Impact of University Students' Emptiness on Smartphone Addiction: The Dual Mediating Effect of Maladaptive Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies and Perceived Social Support

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• The aim is to investigate the relationship between university students' feelings of emptiness and smartphone addiction, focusing on mediating factors.
• Sample included 222 university students.
• Utilized PROCESS Macro v4.2 Model 6 for analysis.
• Examined relationships between emptiness, maladaptive emotional regulation, and perceived social support.
• Significant positive correlation between emptiness and smartphone addiction was found.
• Maladaptive cognitive emotional regulation strategies significantly correlated with both emptiness and smartphone addiction.
• Perceived social support was negatively correlated with smartphone addiction.
• Emptiness influenced smartphone addiction through both maladaptive regulation strategies and perceived social support.

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