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The influence of media use degree on public depressive symptoms: mediating role of big five personality

BACKGROUND: Mixed results have been found regarding the relationship between media use degree and depressive symptoms. The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between media use degree, big five personality and depressive symptoms with a mediation model. METHOD: This was a cross-sect...

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Autores principales: Gong, Fangmin, Jia, Yuhan, Sun, Xinying, Min, Hewei, Jia, Xiaocen, Wang, Fei, Huang, Xincheng, Lin, Xin, Li, Zheming, Wu, Yibo
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10463842/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37608360
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-05097-w
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author Gong, Fangmin
Jia, Yuhan
Sun, Xinying
Min, Hewei
Jia, Xiaocen
Wang, Fei
Huang, Xincheng
Lin, Xin
Li, Zheming
Wu, Yibo
author_facet Gong, Fangmin
Jia, Yuhan
Sun, Xinying
Min, Hewei
Jia, Xiaocen
Wang, Fei
Huang, Xincheng
Lin, Xin
Li, Zheming
Wu, Yibo
author_sort Gong, Fangmin
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description BACKGROUND: Mixed results have been found regarding the relationship between media use degree and depressive symptoms. The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between media use degree, big five personality and depressive symptoms with a mediation model. METHOD: This was a cross-sectional study. With 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), 10-item Big Five Inventory (BFI-10) and self-designed media usage scale, 11,031 participants aged 12 and above in 120 cities in China were collected. Pearson correlation analysis and regression analysis were performed on the data. The Process plug-in was used to construct the mediation model and explore the relationship among media use degree, big five personality and depressive symptoms. The nonparametric percentile Bootstrap method was used to test the mediating effect of personality traits. RESULTS: The degree of media use was positively correlated with depressive symptoms (r = 0.20, P < 0.001), and big five personality played a mediating role between the degree of media use and depressive symptoms. Among five traits, extroversion (r=-0.12, P < 0.001), conscientiousness (r=-0.23, P < 0.001), openness (r=-0.03, P < 0.01) and agreeableness (r=-0.22, P < 0.001) were negatively correlated with depressive symptoms, and neuroticism (r = 0.25, P < 0.001) were positively correlated with depressive symptoms. In addition, extraversion (-0.004, -0.001), conscientiousness (-0.015, -0.008), agreeableness (-0.008, -0.001) and neuroticism (-0.015, -0.007) in big five personality played a mediating role between media use and depressive symptoms. CONCLUSION: The degree of media use positively predicted depressive symptoms, and excessive media use may bring risks to mental health. People with high neuroticism, low agreeableness, low conscientiousness and low extroversion are more likely to suffer from depressive symptoms.
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spelling pubmed-104638422023-08-30 The influence of media use degree on public depressive symptoms: mediating role of big five personality Gong, Fangmin Jia, Yuhan Sun, Xinying Min, Hewei Jia, Xiaocen Wang, Fei Huang, Xincheng Lin, Xin Li, Zheming Wu, Yibo BMC Psychiatry Research BACKGROUND: Mixed results have been found regarding the relationship between media use degree and depressive symptoms. The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between media use degree, big five personality and depressive symptoms with a mediation model. METHOD: This was a cross-sectional study. With 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), 10-item Big Five Inventory (BFI-10) and self-designed media usage scale, 11,031 participants aged 12 and above in 120 cities in China were collected. Pearson correlation analysis and regression analysis were performed on the data. The Process plug-in was used to construct the mediation model and explore the relationship among media use degree, big five personality and depressive symptoms. The nonparametric percentile Bootstrap method was used to test the mediating effect of personality traits. RESULTS: The degree of media use was positively correlated with depressive symptoms (r = 0.20, P < 0.001), and big five personality played a mediating role between the degree of media use and depressive symptoms. Among five traits, extroversion (r=-0.12, P < 0.001), conscientiousness (r=-0.23, P < 0.001), openness (r=-0.03, P < 0.01) and agreeableness (r=-0.22, P < 0.001) were negatively correlated with depressive symptoms, and neuroticism (r = 0.25, P < 0.001) were positively correlated with depressive symptoms. In addition, extraversion (-0.004, -0.001), conscientiousness (-0.015, -0.008), agreeableness (-0.008, -0.001) and neuroticism (-0.015, -0.007) in big five personality played a mediating role between media use and depressive symptoms. CONCLUSION: The degree of media use positively predicted depressive symptoms, and excessive media use may bring risks to mental health. People with high neuroticism, low agreeableness, low conscientiousness and low extroversion are more likely to suffer from depressive symptoms. BioMed Central 2023-08-22 /pmc/articles/PMC10463842/ /pubmed/37608360 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-05097-w Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Gong, Fangmin
Jia, Yuhan
Sun, Xinying
Min, Hewei
Jia, Xiaocen
Wang, Fei
Huang, Xincheng
Lin, Xin
Li, Zheming
Wu, Yibo
The influence of media use degree on public depressive symptoms: mediating role of big five personality
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title_full The influence of media use degree on public depressive symptoms: mediating role of big five personality
title_fullStr The influence of media use degree on public depressive symptoms: mediating role of big five personality
title_full_unstemmed The influence of media use degree on public depressive symptoms: mediating role of big five personality
title_short The influence of media use degree on public depressive symptoms: mediating role of big five personality
title_sort influence of media use degree on public depressive symptoms: mediating role of big five personality
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10463842/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37608360
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-05097-w
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