The relationship between anxiety and depression with smartphone addiction among college students: The mediating effect of executive dysfunction
Smartphone addiction symptom is increasing globally. Many studies have found that negative emotion is associated with smartphone addiction, but few explore the mediating effect of executive dysfunction. In a large-scale, cross-sectional survey, 421 Chinese college students completed measures on anxi...
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| author | JiaMin Ge JiaMin Ge Ya Liu Ya Liu Wenjing Cao Wenjing Cao Shuyin Zhou Shuyin Zhou |
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| description | Smartphone addiction symptom is increasing globally. Many studies have found that negative emotion is associated with smartphone addiction, but few explore the mediating effect of executive dysfunction. In a large-scale, cross-sectional survey, 421 Chinese college students completed measures on anxiety, depression, smartphone addiction, and executive dysfunction. We surveyed the prevalence of depression, impaired executive function, and smartphone addiction. A confirmatory factor analysis was performed on the questionnaire structure, and the mediation models were used to examine the relationship between anxiety, depression, impaired executive function, and smartphone addiction. The main finding indicated that anxiety, depression, and executive dysfunction were positively and significantly associated with smartphone addiction. Executive dysfunction plays a mediation role between anxiety and depression with smartphone addiction. Specifically, executive dysfunction completely mediates the pathway of anxiety and smartphone addiction and partly mediates the path of depression and smartphone addiction. Depression directly predicted smartphone addiction positively but anxiety did not. The sample consisted of Chinese college students, which limits generalizability and self-reported lack of objectivity. The result suggests that we should pay more attention to the mediating role of executive dysfunction between negative emotion and smartphone addiction. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-77193393f7a248db9121f5bcf5844b6f2023-01-11T06:26:59ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782023-01-011310.3389/fpsyg.2022.10333041033304The relationship between anxiety and depression with smartphone addiction among college students: The mediating effect of executive dysfunctionJiaMin Ge0JiaMin Ge1Ya Liu2Ya Liu3Wenjing Cao4Wenjing Cao5Shuyin Zhou6Shuyin Zhou7School of Educational Sciences, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, ChinaKey Laboratory of Applied Psychology, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, ChinaSchool of Educational Sciences, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, ChinaKey Laboratory of Applied Psychology, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, ChinaSchool of Educational Sciences, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, ChinaKey Laboratory of Applied Psychology, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, ChinaSchool of Educational Sciences, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, ChinaKey Laboratory of Applied Psychology, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, ChinaSmartphone addiction symptom is increasing globally. Many studies have found that negative emotion is associated with smartphone addiction, but few explore the mediating effect of executive dysfunction. In a large-scale, cross-sectional survey, 421 Chinese college students completed measures on anxiety, depression, smartphone addiction, and executive dysfunction. We surveyed the prevalence of depression, impaired executive function, and smartphone addiction. A confirmatory factor analysis was performed on the questionnaire structure, and the mediation models were used to examine the relationship between anxiety, depression, impaired executive function, and smartphone addiction. The main finding indicated that anxiety, depression, and executive dysfunction were positively and significantly associated with smartphone addiction. Executive dysfunction plays a mediation role between anxiety and depression with smartphone addiction. Specifically, executive dysfunction completely mediates the pathway of anxiety and smartphone addiction and partly mediates the path of depression and smartphone addiction. Depression directly predicted smartphone addiction positively but anxiety did not. The sample consisted of Chinese college students, which limits generalizability and self-reported lack of objectivity. The result suggests that we should pay more attention to the mediating role of executive dysfunction between negative emotion and smartphone addiction.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1033304/fullanxietysmartphone addictiondepressionexecutive functionI-PACE modelCIUT model |
| spellingShingle | JiaMin Ge JiaMin Ge Ya Liu Ya Liu Wenjing Cao Wenjing Cao Shuyin Zhou Shuyin Zhou The relationship between anxiety and depression with smartphone addiction among college students: The mediating effect of executive dysfunction Frontiers in Psychology anxiety smartphone addiction depression executive function I-PACE model CIUT model |
| title | The relationship between anxiety and depression with smartphone addiction among college students: The mediating effect of executive dysfunction |
| title_full | The relationship between anxiety and depression with smartphone addiction among college students: The mediating effect of executive dysfunction |
| title_fullStr | The relationship between anxiety and depression with smartphone addiction among college students: The mediating effect of executive dysfunction |
| title_full_unstemmed | The relationship between anxiety and depression with smartphone addiction among college students: The mediating effect of executive dysfunction |
| title_short | The relationship between anxiety and depression with smartphone addiction among college students: The mediating effect of executive dysfunction |
| title_sort | relationship between anxiety and depression with smartphone addiction among college students the mediating effect of executive dysfunction |
| topic | anxiety smartphone addiction depression executive function I-PACE model CIUT model |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1033304/full |
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