Excessive use of WeChat, social interaction and locus of control among college students in China

• Juan Hou ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Juan Hou, Yamikani Ndasauka

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Philosophy, Anhui University, Hefei, Anhui, China

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• Yamikani Ndasauka ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Juan Hou, Yamikani Ndasauka

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliations School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China, Department of Philosophy, University of Malawi; Chancellor College, Zomba, Malawi

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• Yingying Jiang,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software

  Affiliation School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

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• Zi Ye,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

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• Ying Wang,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Disease, and School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

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• Lizhuang Yang,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Disease, and School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

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• Xiaoming Li,

  Roles Investigation, Software, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Disease, and School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

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• Yongjun Zhang,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Biomedical Engineering, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

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• Liangjun Pang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zxcustc@ustc.edu.cn (XZ); pljdr@vip.sohu.com (LP)

  Affiliation Anhui Mental Health Center, Hefei, Anhui, China

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• Yan Kong,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

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• Fei Xu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

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• Xiaochu Zhang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zxcustc@ustc.edu.cn (XZ); pljdr@vip.sohu.com (LP)

  Affiliations School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China, CAS Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Disease, and School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China, Center for Biomedical Engineering, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

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