| Background It has been shown that academic procrastination, cognitive emotion regulation strategies, anxiety and mobile phone dependence behaviours are closely related, but the mechanisms by which academic procrastination contributes to mobile phone dependence are unclear and pathway studies are lacking. Objective To explore the pathways of cognitive emotion regulation strategies and anxiety between academic procrastination and mobile phone dependence behaviours in college students, and to provide references for the preven-tion and improvement of college students' academic procrastination. Methods In March 2023, 474 college students from Xinjiang Normal University were selected as study subjects by random sampling method. The Mobile Phone Dependence Index (MPAI), the Procrastination Assessment Scale for Schooling-Student Version (PASS), the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), and the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ-C) were used to conduct the survey. Pearson correlation analysis was used to analyse the correlation of the scores of each scale, and Process3.5 macro program was used to test the path of cognitive emotion regula-tion strategies and anxiety in the academic procrastination of college students on mobile phone dependence behaviour. Results ① Academic procrastination scores and negative cognitive emotion regulation strategy scores, anxiety scores, and mobile phone dependence scores were positively correlated (r=0.374, 0.229, 0.661, P<0.01); negative cognitive emotion regulation strategy scores and anxiety scores, and mobile phone dependence scores were positively correlated (r=0.372, 0.498, P<0.01); anxiety scores, and mobile phone dependence scores were positively correlated (r=0.340, P<0.01); ② negative cognitive emotion regula-tion strategy and anxiety were the pathways of action between college students' academic procrastination and mobile phone dependence, with effect values of 0.094 and 0.013, re-spectively; and negative cognitive emotion regulation strategy and anxiety were the pathways of action in the chain of action between college students' academic procrastination and mo-bile phone dependence, with an effect value of 0.015. Conclusion Academic procrastination not only directly predicts mobile phone dependence behaviour in college students, but also influences mobile phone dependence through the independent paths of action of negative cognitive emotion regulation strategies, anxiety, and the chained paths of action of extreme cognitive emotion regulation strategies and anxiety. |