Mobile phone addiction and cognitive failures in Chinese adolescents: The role of rumination and mindfulness.

We aimed to explore the relationships between mobile phone addiction and cognitive failures in adolescents. Our study sample consisted of 816 adolescents from two high schools in China (female = 413; mean age = 15.86 years, SD = 0.80 years). The adolescents completed the Smartphone Addiction Scale–Short Version, the Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale, the Ruminative Responses Scale, and the Cognitive Failures Questionnaire. Structural equation modelling and multiple mediation analysis showed that high mobile phone addiction predicted high scores on rumination and low scores on mindfulness, which in turn were positively associated with cognitive failures. Rumination and mindfulness partially mediated the relationship between mobile phone addiction and cognitive failures. Moreover, high levels of rumination predicted low levels of mindfulness. Rumination and mindfulness sequentially mediated the relationship between mobile phone addiction and cognitive failures. These mechanisms underlying the development of cognitive failures have potential implications in preventing or treating adolescents' cognitive failures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]