Table 1.

Demographic information about the student interviewees.

Pseudonym	Gender	Age	Education	Daily mobile phone screen time (Including usage of short video platforms such as TikTok)
ZS	Male	35	PhD	Above 3 h
XYW	Male	20	Undergraduate	Above 2 h
TJF	Female	19	Undergraduate	Above 4 h
YRY	Female	19	Undergraduate	Above 4 h
YF	Female	22	Junior university student	Above 4 h
ZYL	Female	22	Undergraduate	Above 3 h
LSY	Female	20	Junior university student	Above 3 h
YH	Male	29	PhD	Above 8 h
LSY	Female	21	Undergraduate	Above 2 h
LY	Male	24	Postgraduate	Above 3 h
HX	Female	19	Undergraduate	Above 4 h
HYM	Female	27	Postgraduates	Above 5 h
HHJ	Male	22	Undergraduates	Above 3 h
LMS	Male	26	Postgraduates	Above 8 h
CFY	Male	18	Undergraduates	Above 2 h
DHY	Male	20	Undergraduates	Above 2 h
ZSX	Male	19	Undergraduates	Above 6 h
HJJ	Male	38	PhD	Above 2 h
SZQ	Female	32	Postgraduates	Above 3 h
LSS	Female	29	Postgraduates	Above 3 h
CYJ	Male	19	Junior university student	Above 4 h
WYX	Male	28	Postgraduates	Above 3 h
LDY	Male	20	Undergraduates	Above 8 h
LJ	Male	28	PhD	Above 4 h
ZF	Female	20	Undergraduates	Above 6 h
ZY	Female	27	Postgraduates	Above 4 h
LS	Male	20	Undergraduates	Above 3 h
LWY	Male	19	Undergraduates	Above 6 h
XRH	Female	25	Postgraduates	Above 2 h
ZB	Male	27	PhD	Above 4 h
HH	Female	24	Postgraduates	Above 3 h
ZQ	Female	25	Postgraduates	Above 5 h
CS	Female	29	PhD	Above 4 h

The rightmost column in this table is labelled as “Daily mobile phone screen time (including usage of short video platforms such as TikTok)” to account for a mobile phone application that calculates daily and weekly screen time usage.