Academic Burnout and Problematic Smartphone Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Effects of Anxiety and Resilience
Background: Academic burnout has been associated with problematic smartphone use. However, the mechanism underlying this relation has been inadequately explored during the COVID-19 pandemic.Materials and Methods: A total of 748 Chinese undergraduate students were recruited in the study who were meas...
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| description | Background: Academic burnout has been associated with problematic smartphone use. However, the mechanism underlying this relation has been inadequately explored during the COVID-19 pandemic.Materials and Methods: A total of 748 Chinese undergraduate students were recruited in the study who were measured with their levels of academic burnout, anxiety, resilience, and problematic smartphone use.Results: Our study showed that academic burnout significantly predicted problematic smartphone use both directly and indirectly via anxiety. By constructing a moderated mediation model, our study found that resilience moderated the direct impact and the second half of the indirect path (between anxiety and problematic smartphone use); however, with the moderation effects of resilience, both the indirect impact of academic burnout on problematic smartphone use via anxiety became insignificant.Conclusions: Our findings brought additional evidence on the association between academic burnout and problematic smartphone use and significantly suggested the potential solution to alleviate the influences. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0858643fa3ee45369b2015754bf7b8c72022-12-21T21:27:33ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychiatry1664-06402021-10-011210.3389/fpsyt.2021.725740725740Academic Burnout and Problematic Smartphone Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Effects of Anxiety and ResilienceZejun Hao0Liangyi Jin1Jinzi Huang2Ruibo Lyu3Qian Cui4Institute of Foreign Languages, China Medical University, Shenyang, ChinaDepartment of Obstetrics, Shenyang Women's and Children's Hospital, Shenyang, ChinaDepartment of Preschool Education, Liaoning National Normal College, Shenyang, ChinaFaculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, ChinaDepartment of Rehabilitation, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, ChinaBackground: Academic burnout has been associated with problematic smartphone use. However, the mechanism underlying this relation has been inadequately explored during the COVID-19 pandemic.Materials and Methods: A total of 748 Chinese undergraduate students were recruited in the study who were measured with their levels of academic burnout, anxiety, resilience, and problematic smartphone use.Results: Our study showed that academic burnout significantly predicted problematic smartphone use both directly and indirectly via anxiety. By constructing a moderated mediation model, our study found that resilience moderated the direct impact and the second half of the indirect path (between anxiety and problematic smartphone use); however, with the moderation effects of resilience, both the indirect impact of academic burnout on problematic smartphone use via anxiety became insignificant.Conclusions: Our findings brought additional evidence on the association between academic burnout and problematic smartphone use and significantly suggested the potential solution to alleviate the influences.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.725740/fullanxietyresilienceproblematic smartphone useacademic burnoutCOVID-19 |
| spellingShingle | Zejun Hao Liangyi Jin Jinzi Huang Ruibo Lyu Qian Cui Academic Burnout and Problematic Smartphone Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Effects of Anxiety and Resilience Frontiers in Psychiatry anxiety resilience problematic smartphone use academic burnout COVID-19 |
| title | Academic Burnout and Problematic Smartphone Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Effects of Anxiety and Resilience |
| title_full | Academic Burnout and Problematic Smartphone Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Effects of Anxiety and Resilience |
| title_fullStr | Academic Burnout and Problematic Smartphone Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Effects of Anxiety and Resilience |
| title_full_unstemmed | Academic Burnout and Problematic Smartphone Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Effects of Anxiety and Resilience |
| title_short | Academic Burnout and Problematic Smartphone Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Effects of Anxiety and Resilience |
| title_sort | academic burnout and problematic smartphone use during the covid 19 pandemic the effects of anxiety and resilience |
| topic | anxiety resilience problematic smartphone use academic burnout COVID-19 |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.725740/full |
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