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Perceived stress and mobile phone addiction among college students: The roles of self-control and security

OBJECTIVE: According to the General Strain Theory, stress can lead to a range of problem behaviors. In the current study, we focused on the association between perceived stress and mobile phone addiction. We hypothesized that this association is mediated by low self-control and that the first path o...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Anqi, Xiong, Sicheng, Peng, Yu, Zeng, Yixin, Zeng, Chengwei, Yang, Ying, Zhang, Bin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9709399/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36465300
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1005062
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author Zhang, Anqi
Xiong, Sicheng
Peng, Yu
Zeng, Yixin
Zeng, Chengwei
Yang, Ying
Zhang, Bin
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Xiong, Sicheng
Peng, Yu
Zeng, Yixin
Zeng, Chengwei
Yang, Ying
Zhang, Bin
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description OBJECTIVE: According to the General Strain Theory, stress can lead to a range of problem behaviors. In the current study, we focused on the association between perceived stress and mobile phone addiction. We hypothesized that this association is mediated by low self-control and that the first path of the mediation is moderated by security. METHODS: College students (N = 397; ages 16–21; 51.89% females) from a university in Hunan Province, China, were surveyed by cluster sampling method. The students completed the Smartphone Addiction Scale-Short Version (SAS-SV), the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-21), the Self-Control Scale (SCS), and the Security Questionnaire (SQ) during regular class time. SPSS26.0 statistical software was used for descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation analyses, the SPSS macro PROCESS was used to test the mediating effects of self-control and the moderating role of security. RESULTS: Mediation analysis showed that as expected, perceived stress was associated with lower self-control, which in turn was associated with a higher risk for mobile phone addiction. Also as expected, moderated mediation analysis indicated that the association between perceived stress and self-control was moderated by security. Specifically, the relationship between perceived stress and self-control was stronger for low security. CONCLUSION: This study provides useful insight into the understanding of how perceived stress increases the risk of mobile phone addiction. The results are consistent with the General Strain Theory and further indicate that concrete approaches are required for the prevention and intervention to reduce mobile phone addiction among college students.
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spelling pubmed-97093992022-12-01 Perceived stress and mobile phone addiction among college students: The roles of self-control and security Zhang, Anqi Xiong, Sicheng Peng, Yu Zeng, Yixin Zeng, Chengwei Yang, Ying Zhang, Bin Front Psychiatry Psychiatry OBJECTIVE: According to the General Strain Theory, stress can lead to a range of problem behaviors. In the current study, we focused on the association between perceived stress and mobile phone addiction. We hypothesized that this association is mediated by low self-control and that the first path of the mediation is moderated by security. METHODS: College students (N = 397; ages 16–21; 51.89% females) from a university in Hunan Province, China, were surveyed by cluster sampling method. The students completed the Smartphone Addiction Scale-Short Version (SAS-SV), the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-21), the Self-Control Scale (SCS), and the Security Questionnaire (SQ) during regular class time. SPSS26.0 statistical software was used for descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation analyses, the SPSS macro PROCESS was used to test the mediating effects of self-control and the moderating role of security. RESULTS: Mediation analysis showed that as expected, perceived stress was associated with lower self-control, which in turn was associated with a higher risk for mobile phone addiction. Also as expected, moderated mediation analysis indicated that the association between perceived stress and self-control was moderated by security. Specifically, the relationship between perceived stress and self-control was stronger for low security. CONCLUSION: This study provides useful insight into the understanding of how perceived stress increases the risk of mobile phone addiction. The results are consistent with the General Strain Theory and further indicate that concrete approaches are required for the prevention and intervention to reduce mobile phone addiction among college students. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9709399/ /pubmed/36465300 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1005062 Text en Copyright © 2022 Zhang, Xiong, Peng, Zeng, Zeng, Yang and Zhang. 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.
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Zhang, Anqi
Xiong, Sicheng
Peng, Yu
Zeng, Yixin
Zeng, Chengwei
Yang, Ying
Zhang, Bin
Perceived stress and mobile phone addiction among college students: The roles of self-control and security
title Perceived stress and mobile phone addiction among college students: The roles of self-control and security
title_full Perceived stress and mobile phone addiction among college students: The roles of self-control and security
title_fullStr Perceived stress and mobile phone addiction among college students: The roles of self-control and security
title_full_unstemmed Perceived stress and mobile phone addiction among college students: The roles of self-control and security
title_short Perceived stress and mobile phone addiction among college students: The roles of self-control and security
title_sort perceived stress and mobile phone addiction among college students: the roles of self-control and security
topic Psychiatry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9709399/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36465300
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1005062
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