How Does Shyness Affect Chinese College Students' Tendency to Mobile Phone Addiction? Testing the Mediating Roles of Social Anxiety and Self-Control
Background and AimsMobile phone addiction among college students has gained considerable research attention because of its adverse effects on their health and academic performance. However, little is known about the mechanisms underlying the relationship between shyness and mobile phone addiction am...
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| author | Xinwei Li Xinwei Li Weijian Li Weijian Li Mengxian Liu Weilong Xiao Weilong Xiao Hui Zhou |
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| description | Background and AimsMobile phone addiction among college students has gained considerable research attention because of its adverse effects on their health and academic performance. However, little is known about the mechanisms underlying the relationship between shyness and mobile phone addiction among college students.MethodsFour questionnaires were used to examine whether mobile phone addiction tendency was predicted by shyness and the mediating roles of social anxiety and self-control among 3,189 Chinese college students. Correlation and mediation analyses were conducted using Hayes PROCESS.ResultsThe results showed that (1) social anxiety (indirect effect = 0.22, 95% CI = 0.18–0.26) and self-control (indirect effect = 0.23, 95% CI = 0.21–0.25) played a partial mediating role in the relationship between shyness and mobile phone addiction tendency; (2) social anxiety and self-control also mediated the link between shyness and mobile phone addiction tendency sequentially (indirect effect = 0.10, 95% CI = 0.09 to 0.12).ConclusionThese results suggest that mobile phone addiction among shy college students could be eliminated by alleviating social anxiety and strengthening self-control. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3931148e96f94cdeb84066fe542dab712022-12-22T01:24:26ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Public Health2296-25652022-07-011010.3389/fpubh.2022.902425902425How Does Shyness Affect Chinese College Students' Tendency to Mobile Phone Addiction? Testing the Mediating Roles of Social Anxiety and Self-ControlXinwei Li0Xinwei Li1Weijian Li2Weijian Li3Mengxian Liu4Weilong Xiao5Weilong Xiao6Hui Zhou7College of Teacher Education, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, ChinaKey Laboratory of Intelligent Education Technology and Application of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, ChinaCollege of Teacher Education, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, ChinaKey Laboratory of Intelligent Education Technology and Application of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, ChinaSchool of Electronic Commerce, Zhejiang Business College, Hangzhou, ChinaCollege of Teacher Education, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, ChinaKey Laboratory of Intelligent Education Technology and Application of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, ChinaJinhua Advanced Research Institute, Jinhua, ChinaBackground and AimsMobile phone addiction among college students has gained considerable research attention because of its adverse effects on their health and academic performance. However, little is known about the mechanisms underlying the relationship between shyness and mobile phone addiction among college students.MethodsFour questionnaires were used to examine whether mobile phone addiction tendency was predicted by shyness and the mediating roles of social anxiety and self-control among 3,189 Chinese college students. Correlation and mediation analyses were conducted using Hayes PROCESS.ResultsThe results showed that (1) social anxiety (indirect effect = 0.22, 95% CI = 0.18–0.26) and self-control (indirect effect = 0.23, 95% CI = 0.21–0.25) played a partial mediating role in the relationship between shyness and mobile phone addiction tendency; (2) social anxiety and self-control also mediated the link between shyness and mobile phone addiction tendency sequentially (indirect effect = 0.10, 95% CI = 0.09 to 0.12).ConclusionThese results suggest that mobile phone addiction among shy college students could be eliminated by alleviating social anxiety and strengthening self-control.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.902425/fullcollege studentsshynesssocial anxietyself-controlmobile phone addiction tendency |
| spellingShingle | Xinwei Li Xinwei Li Weijian Li Weijian Li Mengxian Liu Weilong Xiao Weilong Xiao Hui Zhou How Does Shyness Affect Chinese College Students' Tendency to Mobile Phone Addiction? Testing the Mediating Roles of Social Anxiety and Self-Control Frontiers in Public Health college students shyness social anxiety self-control mobile phone addiction tendency |
| title | How Does Shyness Affect Chinese College Students' Tendency to Mobile Phone Addiction? Testing the Mediating Roles of Social Anxiety and Self-Control |
| title_full | How Does Shyness Affect Chinese College Students' Tendency to Mobile Phone Addiction? Testing the Mediating Roles of Social Anxiety and Self-Control |
| title_fullStr | How Does Shyness Affect Chinese College Students' Tendency to Mobile Phone Addiction? Testing the Mediating Roles of Social Anxiety and Self-Control |
| title_full_unstemmed | How Does Shyness Affect Chinese College Students' Tendency to Mobile Phone Addiction? Testing the Mediating Roles of Social Anxiety and Self-Control |
| title_short | How Does Shyness Affect Chinese College Students' Tendency to Mobile Phone Addiction? Testing the Mediating Roles of Social Anxiety and Self-Control |
| title_sort | how does shyness affect chinese college students tendency to mobile phone addiction testing the mediating roles of social anxiety and self control |
| topic | college students shyness social anxiety self-control mobile phone addiction tendency |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.902425/full |
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