The effect of mindfulness on social media addiction among Chinese college students: A serial mediation model
IntroductionThe COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated social media addiction (SMA), making it urgent to find effective interventions for social media addiction. Evidence has shown that mindfulness might be an effective intervention for social media addiction. However, psychological mechanisms by which m...
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| author | Hongming Chang Xiaolu Meng Xiaolu Meng Yaqi Li Jiaxi Liu Wen Yuan Jian Ni Chunlu Li Chunlu Li |
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| description | IntroductionThe COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated social media addiction (SMA), making it urgent to find effective interventions for social media addiction. Evidence has shown that mindfulness might be an effective intervention for social media addiction. However, psychological mechanisms by which mindfulness reduce social media use remain unclear. Here, we further addressed this issue to examine whether attentional control and fear of missing out (FOMO) mediate the relationship between mindfulness and SMA.MethodsWe recruited 446 college students from two universities in China and analyzed the data.ResultsThe results suggest that there are mediation effects of attentional control and FOMO between mindfulness and SMA through 3 paths: path 1, mindfulness → attention control → SMA (−0.04); path 2, mindfulness → FOMO → SMA (−0.22); and path 3, mindfulness → attention control → FOMO → SMA (−0.05).DiscussionTherefore, mindfulness-based interventions may be an effective way to alleviate social media addiction, especially mindfulness-based interventions targeting FOMO. At the end of the article, we also discussed the limitations of this study. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b0351862badb4c8abad88a1407344baa2023-03-23T07:14:49ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychiatry1664-06402023-03-011410.3389/fpsyt.2023.10879091087909The effect of mindfulness on social media addiction among Chinese college students: A serial mediation modelHongming Chang0Xiaolu Meng1Xiaolu Meng2Yaqi Li3Jiaxi Liu4Wen Yuan5Jian Ni6Chunlu Li7Chunlu Li8Department of Psychology, School of Medical Humanitarians, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, ChinaDepartment of Psychology, School of Medical Humanitarians, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, ChinaGuizhou Health Development Research Center, Guiyang, ChinaDepartment of Psychology, School of Medical Humanitarians, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, ChinaDepartment of Applied Psychology, Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha, ChinaDepartment of Applied Psychology, Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha, ChinaDepartment of Applied Psychology, Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha, ChinaDepartment of Psychology, School of Medical Humanitarians, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, ChinaGuizhou Health Development Research Center, Guiyang, ChinaIntroductionThe COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated social media addiction (SMA), making it urgent to find effective interventions for social media addiction. Evidence has shown that mindfulness might be an effective intervention for social media addiction. However, psychological mechanisms by which mindfulness reduce social media use remain unclear. Here, we further addressed this issue to examine whether attentional control and fear of missing out (FOMO) mediate the relationship between mindfulness and SMA.MethodsWe recruited 446 college students from two universities in China and analyzed the data.ResultsThe results suggest that there are mediation effects of attentional control and FOMO between mindfulness and SMA through 3 paths: path 1, mindfulness → attention control → SMA (−0.04); path 2, mindfulness → FOMO → SMA (−0.22); and path 3, mindfulness → attention control → FOMO → SMA (−0.05).DiscussionTherefore, mindfulness-based interventions may be an effective way to alleviate social media addiction, especially mindfulness-based interventions targeting FOMO. At the end of the article, we also discussed the limitations of this study.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1087909/fullmindfulnesssocial media addictionattention controlfear of missing outcollege students |
| spellingShingle | Hongming Chang Xiaolu Meng Xiaolu Meng Yaqi Li Jiaxi Liu Wen Yuan Jian Ni Chunlu Li Chunlu Li The effect of mindfulness on social media addiction among Chinese college students: A serial mediation model Frontiers in Psychiatry mindfulness social media addiction attention control fear of missing out college students |
| title | The effect of mindfulness on social media addiction among Chinese college students: A serial mediation model |
| title_full | The effect of mindfulness on social media addiction among Chinese college students: A serial mediation model |
| title_fullStr | The effect of mindfulness on social media addiction among Chinese college students: A serial mediation model |
| title_full_unstemmed | The effect of mindfulness on social media addiction among Chinese college students: A serial mediation model |
| title_short | The effect of mindfulness on social media addiction among Chinese college students: A serial mediation model |
| title_sort | effect of mindfulness on social media addiction among chinese college students a serial mediation model |
| topic | mindfulness social media addiction attention control fear of missing out college students |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1087909/full |
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