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The relationship between college students’ alexithymia and mobile phone addiction: Testing mediation and moderation effects

BACKGROUND: To explore the relationship between college students’ alexithymia and mobile phone addiction as well as the mediating effects of mental health and the moderating role of being a single child or not. METHODS: A total of 1034 college students from Changchun were assessed with the Toronto A...

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Autores principales: Mei, Songli, Xu, Gang, Gao, Tingting, Ren, Hui, Li, Jingyang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6182810/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30309326
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-018-1891-8
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author Mei, Songli
Xu, Gang
Gao, Tingting
Ren, Hui
Li, Jingyang
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description BACKGROUND: To explore the relationship between college students’ alexithymia and mobile phone addiction as well as the mediating effects of mental health and the moderating role of being a single child or not. METHODS: A total of 1034 college students from Changchun were assessed with the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20), General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) and Mobile Phone Addiction Index (MPAI). RESULTS: Alexithymia was positively correlated with mental health and mobile phone addiction. Alexithymia had not only a direct impact on mobile phone addiction but also an indirect impact via mental health. For college students who were not only children, higher levels of alexithymia led to an increase in mobile phone addiction, whereas the influence of alexithymia on mobile phone addiction was much weaker among only children. CONCLUSION: Mental health has a partial mediating effect on the relationship between alexithymia and mobile phone addiction, and the relationship was significantly moderated by whether students were only children or not.
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spelling pubmed-61828102018-10-18 The relationship between college students’ alexithymia and mobile phone addiction: Testing mediation and moderation effects Mei, Songli Xu, Gang Gao, Tingting Ren, Hui Li, Jingyang BMC Psychiatry Research Article BACKGROUND: To explore the relationship between college students’ alexithymia and mobile phone addiction as well as the mediating effects of mental health and the moderating role of being a single child or not. METHODS: A total of 1034 college students from Changchun were assessed with the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20), General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) and Mobile Phone Addiction Index (MPAI). RESULTS: Alexithymia was positively correlated with mental health and mobile phone addiction. Alexithymia had not only a direct impact on mobile phone addiction but also an indirect impact via mental health. For college students who were not only children, higher levels of alexithymia led to an increase in mobile phone addiction, whereas the influence of alexithymia on mobile phone addiction was much weaker among only children. CONCLUSION: Mental health has a partial mediating effect on the relationship between alexithymia and mobile phone addiction, and the relationship was significantly moderated by whether students were only children or not. BioMed Central 2018-10-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6182810/ /pubmed/30309326 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-018-1891-8 Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6182810/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30309326
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-018-1891-8
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