Objective:To investigate the relationship among mobile phone dependence, sleep quality and creativity in college students and the role of sleep quality in mediating the relationship between mobile phone dependence and creativity.Methods:A simple random sampling method was used to select 2 976 undergraduate students from four universities in Heilongjiang province.The mobile phone dependence index scale, the self-rating sleep status scale and the Williams creativity tendency measure were used to assess all college students.The descriptive statistical analysis and Pearson correlation analysis in SPSS 26.0 statistical software, and the PROCESS 2.16.3 macro program was used to test the mediating effect of sleep quality.Results:(1)The total scores of creativity was (107.52±11.25), mobile phone dependence was (43.17±13.23) and sleep quality was (21.08±6.15) in college students.(2)Mobile phone dependence was significantly positively correlated with sleep quality( r=0.412, P<0.01) and negatively correlated with creativity ( r=-0.293, P<0.01). Sleep quality was significantly negatively related with creativity ( r=-0.294, P<0.01). (3)Sleep quality partly mediated the relationship between mobile phone dependence and creativity, the direct effect (effect value=-0.216) and mediating effect (effect value=-0.062) accounted for 77.7% and 22.3% of the total effect (effect value=-0.278), respectively. Conclusion:Sleep quality plays a partly mediating role in the relationship between mobile phone dependence and college students' creativity. Mobile phone dependence can not only directly predict college students' creativity, but also indirectly predict college students' creativity through sleep quality.