The purpose of current research was to investigate the effect of short-term
mindfulness training on overusing of cell phone among college students. Through
the mobile phone dependence index (MPAI), 26 college students with overusing of
cell phone were randomly assigned to the experimental condition and the control
condition. The participants in the experimental condition underwent mindfulness
training for two weeks. According to the results of MPAI and academic self-efficacy
evaluation between two conditions, the experimental group has significant differences
in the level of overusing of cell phone between pre-test and post-test (before and after
training), while the learning behavior self-efficacy had no significant difference, while
the control condition had no significant difference in overusing of cell phone and
learning behavior self-efficacy between pre- and post-test. Current study found that
short-term mindfulness training significantly improve the phenomenon of overusing
of cell phone among college students, but cannot effectively improve the academic selfefficacy.