Psychology, 2018, 9, 2031-2043 http://www.scirp.org/journal/psych ISSN Online: 2152-7199 ISSN Print: 2152-7180 An 8-Week Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Intervention for Mobile Dependence Ting Li, Lixia Cui * , Shu Ma, Shuang Zhang, Jie Zheng, Jing Xiao * , Qin Zhang Beijing Key Laboratory of Learning and Cognition and School of Psychology, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China Abstract In China, college students with mobile phone dependence are more and more common, which is accompanied by many psychological problems. We de- veloped a group cognitive therapy (CBT) program for mobile phone depen- dence and studied its effects in Chinese college students. Forty-two Chinese college students, whose scores in the revised Chinese Test of Mobile Phone Dependence (C-TMD) were 37 to 42 points, were assigned to two conditions at a random: the group CBT intervention and the wait-list control condition. The result showed that the CBT group demonstrated significantly more de- crease in measures of the C-TMD and Simplified Symptom Checklist (SSCL) than the wait-list controls at post-test and two-month follow-up. Keywords Mobile Phone Dependence, CBT-IA, Group CBT, C-TMD 1. Introduction By the early 21st century, mobile phones had become ubiquitous in everyday life in many countries, but researchers have found that this new technology is associated with many problems. Excessive mobile phone use may be a health-compromising behavior, like drinking alcohol or smoking (Koivusilta, Lintonen, & Rimpelä, 2003; Leena, Tomi, & Arja, 2005). Self-symptom reports show that mobile phone use is generally associated with headaches, earache, fever, and other symptoms (Korpinen, & Pääkkönen, 2009), and sometimes leads to inattention and fatigue (Johansson, Nordin, Heiden, & Sandström, 2010), even predicts negatively aca- demic performance of college students (Lepp, Barkley, & Karpinski, 2015). Mo- bile phone use in a variety of settings will lead to serious consequences, and it is banned in some jurisdictions (Bianchi & Phillips, 2005). Thomée, Eklöf, Gus- How to cite this paper: Li, T., Cui, L. X., Ma, S., Zhang, S., Zheng, J., Xiao, J., & Zhang, Q. (2018). An 8-Week Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Intervention for Mo- bile Dependence. Psychology, 9, 2031-2043. https://doi.org/10.4236/psych.2018.98116 Received: July 3, 2018 Accepted: August 5, 2018 Published: August 8, 2018 Copyright © 2018 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open Access DOI: 10.4236/psych.2018.98116 Aug. 8, 2018 2031 Psychology