The relationship between social anxiety and problematic smartphone use: the serial mediation model of perceived social support and smartphone use frequency.

Front Public Health · 2026 · PMC13424113 · PMID 42539558

Europe PMC DOI

hedged sentence

—

closest p

—

boldest claim

The sentences

a negative trendno p-value reported

a positive trendno p-value reported

Notably, two competing pathways coexist in this model: the pathway through perceived social support shows a negative trend, while the pathway via smartphone use frequency presents a positive trend.

also in 4,201 other papers

Quoted from the open-access full text in Europe PMC under the licence the publisher applied. The sentence is reproduced exactly as published; the emphasis is ours.