Psychological distress and internet addiction following the COVID-19 outbreak: Fear of missing out and boredom proneness as mediators

COVID-19 has caused major changes in people's mental health and behavior. This study aimed to investigate whether boredom proneness and fear of missing out acted as mediators between psychological distress and Internet addiction (IA). A cross-sectional survey was conducted in 2020, including 55...

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Autores principales: Liang, Leilei, Li, Chuanen, Meng, Cuicui, Guo, Xinmeng, Lv, Jianping, Fei, Junsong, Mei, Songli
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8934433/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36064250
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apnu.2022.03.007
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author Liang, Leilei
Li, Chuanen
Meng, Cuicui
Guo, Xinmeng
Lv, Jianping
Fei, Junsong
Mei, Songli
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Li, Chuanen
Meng, Cuicui
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description COVID-19 has caused major changes in people's mental health and behavior. This study aimed to investigate whether boredom proneness and fear of missing out acted as mediators between psychological distress and Internet addiction (IA). A cross-sectional survey was conducted in 2020, including 552 youths aged 17–28 years. The recruited participants were asked to complete a series of self-reported questionnaires regarding psychological distress, fear of missing out, boredom proneness and IA. The results indicate that during the COVID-19 pandemic, the reporting rate of IA in young adults was 28.1%, and fear of missing out and boredom proneness played multiple mediation roles in the relationship between psychological distress and IA. Governments and education departments should focus on young people with psychological deficits to prevent them from succumbing to IA.
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spelling pubmed-89344332022-03-21 Psychological distress and internet addiction following the COVID-19 outbreak: Fear of missing out and boredom proneness as mediators Liang, Leilei Li, Chuanen Meng, Cuicui Guo, Xinmeng Lv, Jianping Fei, Junsong Mei, Songli Arch Psychiatr Nurs Article COVID-19 has caused major changes in people's mental health and behavior. This study aimed to investigate whether boredom proneness and fear of missing out acted as mediators between psychological distress and Internet addiction (IA). A cross-sectional survey was conducted in 2020, including 552 youths aged 17–28 years. The recruited participants were asked to complete a series of self-reported questionnaires regarding psychological distress, fear of missing out, boredom proneness and IA. The results indicate that during the COVID-19 pandemic, the reporting rate of IA in young adults was 28.1%, and fear of missing out and boredom proneness played multiple mediation roles in the relationship between psychological distress and IA. Governments and education departments should focus on young people with psychological deficits to prevent them from succumbing to IA. Elsevier Inc. 2022-10 2022-03-20 /pmc/articles/PMC8934433/ /pubmed/36064250 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apnu.2022.03.007 Text en © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Guo, Xinmeng
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Fei, Junsong
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Psychological distress and internet addiction following the COVID-19 outbreak: Fear of missing out and boredom proneness as mediators
title Psychological distress and internet addiction following the COVID-19 outbreak: Fear of missing out and boredom proneness as mediators
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title_full_unstemmed Psychological distress and internet addiction following the COVID-19 outbreak: Fear of missing out and boredom proneness as mediators
title_short Psychological distress and internet addiction following the COVID-19 outbreak: Fear of missing out and boredom proneness as mediators
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8934433/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36064250
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apnu.2022.03.007
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