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Investigating Links Between Fear of COVID-19, Neuroticism, Social Networks Use Disorder, and Smartphone Use Disorder Tendencies
The present study investigates links between fear of COVID-19, the personality trait of neuroticism, social networks use disorder, and smartphone use disorder (SNUD and SmUD, respectively) tendencies. In an online survey, N = 932 participants recruited at a Chinese University (237 males and 695 fema...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8366062/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34408703 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.682837 |
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author | Montag, Christian Sindermann, Cornelia Rozgonjuk, Dmitri Yang, Shixin Elhai, Jon D. Yang, Haibo |
author_facet | Montag, Christian Sindermann, Cornelia Rozgonjuk, Dmitri Yang, Shixin Elhai, Jon D. Yang, Haibo |
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description | The present study investigates links between fear of COVID-19, the personality trait of neuroticism, social networks use disorder, and smartphone use disorder (SNUD and SmUD, respectively) tendencies. In an online survey, N = 932 participants recruited at a Chinese University (237 males and 695 females) completed self-reports on fear of COVID-19, neuroticism (and other personality traits from the Big Five Inventory-44), the Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale (assessing tendencies toward SNUD), and the Smartphone Addiction Scale short version—assessing individual differences in tendencies toward SmUD. Our findings showed that all variables of main interest were positively correlated with each other. A mediation model suggested that SNUD (in parts) mediated the association between fear of COVID-19 and SmUD. Although neuroticism was robustly correlated with all mentioned variables, no moderation effect could be observed on the investigated fear-of-COVID-19-SNUD-link. The findings of this work provide further evidence that the smartphone itself is only a device giving individuals access to software applications, which might be excessively used. Beyond that, the present data indicate neuroticism to be a risk factor with respect to fear of COVID-19, SNUD, and SmUD, although the study is limited by its cross-sectional study design. |
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spelling | pubmed-83660622021-08-17 Investigating Links Between Fear of COVID-19, Neuroticism, Social Networks Use Disorder, and Smartphone Use Disorder Tendencies Montag, Christian Sindermann, Cornelia Rozgonjuk, Dmitri Yang, Shixin Elhai, Jon D. Yang, Haibo Front Psychol Psychology The present study investigates links between fear of COVID-19, the personality trait of neuroticism, social networks use disorder, and smartphone use disorder (SNUD and SmUD, respectively) tendencies. In an online survey, N = 932 participants recruited at a Chinese University (237 males and 695 females) completed self-reports on fear of COVID-19, neuroticism (and other personality traits from the Big Five Inventory-44), the Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale (assessing tendencies toward SNUD), and the Smartphone Addiction Scale short version—assessing individual differences in tendencies toward SmUD. Our findings showed that all variables of main interest were positively correlated with each other. A mediation model suggested that SNUD (in parts) mediated the association between fear of COVID-19 and SmUD. Although neuroticism was robustly correlated with all mentioned variables, no moderation effect could be observed on the investigated fear-of-COVID-19-SNUD-link. The findings of this work provide further evidence that the smartphone itself is only a device giving individuals access to software applications, which might be excessively used. Beyond that, the present data indicate neuroticism to be a risk factor with respect to fear of COVID-19, SNUD, and SmUD, although the study is limited by its cross-sectional study design. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-08-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8366062/ /pubmed/34408703 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.682837 Text en Copyright © 2021 Montag, Sindermann, Rozgonjuk, Yang, Elhai and Yang. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Montag, Christian Sindermann, Cornelia Rozgonjuk, Dmitri Yang, Shixin Elhai, Jon D. Yang, Haibo Investigating Links Between Fear of COVID-19, Neuroticism, Social Networks Use Disorder, and Smartphone Use Disorder Tendencies |
title | Investigating Links Between Fear of COVID-19, Neuroticism, Social Networks Use Disorder, and Smartphone Use Disorder Tendencies |
title_full | Investigating Links Between Fear of COVID-19, Neuroticism, Social Networks Use Disorder, and Smartphone Use Disorder Tendencies |
title_fullStr | Investigating Links Between Fear of COVID-19, Neuroticism, Social Networks Use Disorder, and Smartphone Use Disorder Tendencies |
title_full_unstemmed | Investigating Links Between Fear of COVID-19, Neuroticism, Social Networks Use Disorder, and Smartphone Use Disorder Tendencies |
title_short | Investigating Links Between Fear of COVID-19, Neuroticism, Social Networks Use Disorder, and Smartphone Use Disorder Tendencies |
title_sort | investigating links between fear of covid-19, neuroticism, social networks use disorder, and smartphone use disorder tendencies |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8366062/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34408703 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.682837 |
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