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How Does Shyness Affect Chinese College Students' Tendency to Mobile Phone Addiction? Testing the Mediating Roles of Social Anxiety and Self-Control
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Mobile phone addiction among college students has gained considerable research attention because of its adverse effects on their health and academic performance. However, little is known about the mechanisms underlying the relationship between shyness and mobile phone addiction...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9326250/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35910898 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.902425 |
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author | Li, Xinwei Li, Weijian Liu, Mengxian Xiao, Weilong Zhou, Hui |
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description | BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Mobile phone addiction among college students has gained considerable research attention because of its adverse effects on their health and academic performance. However, little is known about the mechanisms underlying the relationship between shyness and mobile phone addiction among college students. METHODS: Four questionnaires were used to examine whether mobile phone addiction tendency was predicted by shyness and the mediating roles of social anxiety and self-control among 3,189 Chinese college students. Correlation and mediation analyses were conducted using Hayes PROCESS. RESULTS: The results showed that (1) social anxiety (indirect effect = 0.22, 95% CI = 0.18–0.26) and self-control (indirect effect = 0.23, 95% CI = 0.21–0.25) played a partial mediating role in the relationship between shyness and mobile phone addiction tendency; (2) social anxiety and self-control also mediated the link between shyness and mobile phone addiction tendency sequentially (indirect effect = 0.10, 95% CI = 0.09 to 0.12). CONCLUSION: These results suggest that mobile phone addiction among shy college students could be eliminated by alleviating social anxiety and strengthening self-control. |
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spelling | pubmed-93262502022-07-28 How Does Shyness Affect Chinese College Students' Tendency to Mobile Phone Addiction? Testing the Mediating Roles of Social Anxiety and Self-Control Li, Xinwei Li, Weijian Liu, Mengxian Xiao, Weilong Zhou, Hui Front Public Health Public Health BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Mobile phone addiction among college students has gained considerable research attention because of its adverse effects on their health and academic performance. However, little is known about the mechanisms underlying the relationship between shyness and mobile phone addiction among college students. METHODS: Four questionnaires were used to examine whether mobile phone addiction tendency was predicted by shyness and the mediating roles of social anxiety and self-control among 3,189 Chinese college students. Correlation and mediation analyses were conducted using Hayes PROCESS. RESULTS: The results showed that (1) social anxiety (indirect effect = 0.22, 95% CI = 0.18–0.26) and self-control (indirect effect = 0.23, 95% CI = 0.21–0.25) played a partial mediating role in the relationship between shyness and mobile phone addiction tendency; (2) social anxiety and self-control also mediated the link between shyness and mobile phone addiction tendency sequentially (indirect effect = 0.10, 95% CI = 0.09 to 0.12). CONCLUSION: These results suggest that mobile phone addiction among shy college students could be eliminated by alleviating social anxiety and strengthening self-control. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-07-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9326250/ /pubmed/35910898 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.902425 Text en Copyright © 2022 Li, Li, Liu, Xiao and Zhou. 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 | Public Health Li, Xinwei Li, Weijian Liu, Mengxian Xiao, Weilong Zhou, Hui How Does Shyness Affect Chinese College Students' Tendency to Mobile Phone Addiction? Testing the Mediating Roles of Social Anxiety and Self-Control |
title | How Does Shyness Affect Chinese College Students' Tendency to Mobile Phone Addiction? Testing the Mediating Roles of Social Anxiety and Self-Control |
title_full | How Does Shyness Affect Chinese College Students' Tendency to Mobile Phone Addiction? Testing the Mediating Roles of Social Anxiety and Self-Control |
title_fullStr | How Does Shyness Affect Chinese College Students' Tendency to Mobile Phone Addiction? Testing the Mediating Roles of Social Anxiety and Self-Control |
title_full_unstemmed | How Does Shyness Affect Chinese College Students' Tendency to Mobile Phone Addiction? Testing the Mediating Roles of Social Anxiety and Self-Control |
title_short | How Does Shyness Affect Chinese College Students' Tendency to Mobile Phone Addiction? Testing the Mediating Roles of Social Anxiety and Self-Control |
title_sort | how does shyness affect chinese college students' tendency to mobile phone addiction? testing the mediating roles of social anxiety and self-control |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9326250/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35910898 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.902425 |
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