The Mediational Role of Coping Strategies in the Relationship Between Self-Esteem and Risk of Internet Addiction

The aim of the present study is to explore, through a mediation model, the relationship among self-esteem, coping strategies, and the risk of Internet addiction in a sample of 300 Italian university students. We submitted the data to a descriptive, mediational comparison between variables (t-test),...

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Autores principales: Servidio, Rocco, Gentile, Ambra, Boca, Stefano
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PsychOpen 2018
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Research Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5973524/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29899805
http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v14i1.1449
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description The aim of the present study is to explore, through a mediation model, the relationship among self-esteem, coping strategies, and the risk of Internet addiction in a sample of 300 Italian university students. We submitted the data to a descriptive, mediational comparison between variables (t-test), and correlational statistical analyses. The results confirmed the effect of self-esteem on the risk of Internet addiction. However, we found that the introduction of coping strategies as a mediator gives rise to partial mediation. A low level of self-esteem is a predictor of avoidance-oriented coping that, in turn, affects the risk of Internet addiction.
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spelling pubmed-59735242018-06-13 The Mediational Role of Coping Strategies in the Relationship Between Self-Esteem and Risk of Internet Addiction Servidio, Rocco Gentile, Ambra Boca, Stefano Eur J Psychol Research Reports The aim of the present study is to explore, through a mediation model, the relationship among self-esteem, coping strategies, and the risk of Internet addiction in a sample of 300 Italian university students. We submitted the data to a descriptive, mediational comparison between variables (t-test), and correlational statistical analyses. The results confirmed the effect of self-esteem on the risk of Internet addiction. However, we found that the introduction of coping strategies as a mediator gives rise to partial mediation. A low level of self-esteem is a predictor of avoidance-oriented coping that, in turn, affects the risk of Internet addiction. PsychOpen 2018-03-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5973524/ /pubmed/29899805 http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v14i1.1449 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 3.0 License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v14i1.1449
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