<p>Data used in analysis.</p>

Survey data from 600 college students in Hubei Province, China, collected in January 2025. The study investigates the mediating roles of mental toughness and social adaptability in the relationship between self-control and smartphone dependence. The dataset was created by Quanwei Shen and is available under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Conducting mediation analysis based on the described relationships between self-control, mental toughness, social adaptability, and smartphone dependence.
• Investigating correlations between psychological traits and technology use patterns among college students.
• Training predictive models for smartphone dependence risk based on survey responses about self-control and adaptability.

Strengths

• Contains 600 survey responses from a defined population of college students.
• Data collection time (January 2025) and location (Hubei Province, China) are explicitly stated.
• Analysis methodology (SPSS PROCESS Model 6) is described, suggesting a structured research design.

Limitations

• The specific survey questions, column names, and row count are unknown, requiring manual inspection after download.
• Data is limited to a single province in China, which may limit generalizability.
• The dataset is small at 129.0 KB, indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

Quanwei Shen via figshare.

Collection Method

Questionnaire survey using convenience and quota sampling methods.

Time Range

January 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 17:36:10.

Geography

Hubei Province, China.