The Impact of Mobile Phone Addiction on Daily Memory and the Mediating Role of Sleep Quality: An Empirical Study based on Chinese and Filipino College Students

Abstract

Frequent smartphone usage is contributing to a growing condition known as mobile phone addiction, which is harming users' sleep quality and may even create difficulties with daily memory decline. The purpose of this essay is to investigate how sleep quality influences daily memory and mobile phone addiction. A systematic psychological test was conducted on 250 college students from China and 200 college students from the Philippines, including a validated smartphone addiction scale, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, and a daily memory questionnaire. Mobile phone addiction significantly positively predicted daily memory (β=0.27, t=3.82, p<0.001), and sleep quality (β=0.56, t=9.93, p<0.001). Additionally, there was also a significant positive relationship between sleep quality and daily memory (β=0.28, t=3.89, p<0.001). The mediation effect analysis showed that the mediation effect value of sleep quality between mobile phone addiction and daily memory was 0.16, accounting for 37.2% of the total effect, and this effect did not show significant differences across different geographical and cultural backgrounds.Sleep quality mediates the relationship between mobile phone addiction and daily memory to a certain extent, revealing the potential impact of mobile phone addiction on daily memory function. It is also found that this relationship is universal across different geographical and cultural backgrounds, providing theoretical and empirical evidence for related fields concerning mobile phone addiction's effects on memory and sleep quality.