Negative life events, depression, and mobile phone dependency among left-behind adolescents in rural China: An interpersonal perspective

The popularization of mobile phones has largely facilitated the connection between migrant workers in cities and their left-behind children in rural China; but it also triggered a public concern about the mobile phone dependency (MPD) of these children. The present study aimed to examine the mediating role of depression and the moderating roles of interpersonal relationships in the association between negative life events and MPD, in order to...