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The relationship between anxiety and depression with smartphone addiction among college students: The mediating effect of executive dysfunction

Smartphone addiction symptom is increasing globally. Many studies have found that negative emotion is associated with smartphone addiction, but few explore the mediating effect of executive dysfunction. In a large-scale, cross-sectional survey, 421 Chinese college students completed measures on anxi...

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Autores principales: Ge, JiaMin, Liu, Ya, Cao, Wenjing, Zhou, Shuyin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9874858/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36710811
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1033304
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author Ge, JiaMin
Liu, Ya
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Zhou, Shuyin
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description Smartphone addiction symptom is increasing globally. Many studies have found that negative emotion is associated with smartphone addiction, but few explore the mediating effect of executive dysfunction. In a large-scale, cross-sectional survey, 421 Chinese college students completed measures on anxiety, depression, smartphone addiction, and executive dysfunction. We surveyed the prevalence of depression, impaired executive function, and smartphone addiction. A confirmatory factor analysis was performed on the questionnaire structure, and the mediation models were used to examine the relationship between anxiety, depression, impaired executive function, and smartphone addiction. The main finding indicated that anxiety, depression, and executive dysfunction were positively and significantly associated with smartphone addiction. Executive dysfunction plays a mediation role between anxiety and depression with smartphone addiction. Specifically, executive dysfunction completely mediates the pathway of anxiety and smartphone addiction and partly mediates the path of depression and smartphone addiction. Depression directly predicted smartphone addiction positively but anxiety did not. The sample consisted of Chinese college students, which limits generalizability and self-reported lack of objectivity. The result suggests that we should pay more attention to the mediating role of executive dysfunction between negative emotion and smartphone addiction.
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spelling pubmed-98748582023-01-26 The relationship between anxiety and depression with smartphone addiction among college students: The mediating effect of executive dysfunction Ge, JiaMin Liu, Ya Cao, Wenjing Zhou, Shuyin Front Psychol Psychology Smartphone addiction symptom is increasing globally. Many studies have found that negative emotion is associated with smartphone addiction, but few explore the mediating effect of executive dysfunction. In a large-scale, cross-sectional survey, 421 Chinese college students completed measures on anxiety, depression, smartphone addiction, and executive dysfunction. We surveyed the prevalence of depression, impaired executive function, and smartphone addiction. A confirmatory factor analysis was performed on the questionnaire structure, and the mediation models were used to examine the relationship between anxiety, depression, impaired executive function, and smartphone addiction. The main finding indicated that anxiety, depression, and executive dysfunction were positively and significantly associated with smartphone addiction. Executive dysfunction plays a mediation role between anxiety and depression with smartphone addiction. Specifically, executive dysfunction completely mediates the pathway of anxiety and smartphone addiction and partly mediates the path of depression and smartphone addiction. Depression directly predicted smartphone addiction positively but anxiety did not. The sample consisted of Chinese college students, which limits generalizability and self-reported lack of objectivity. The result suggests that we should pay more attention to the mediating role of executive dysfunction between negative emotion and smartphone addiction. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-01-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9874858/ /pubmed/36710811 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1033304 Text en Copyright © 2023 Ge, Liu, Cao 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.
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The relationship between anxiety and depression with smartphone addiction among college students: The mediating effect of executive dysfunction
title The relationship between anxiety and depression with smartphone addiction among college students: The mediating effect of executive dysfunction
title_full The relationship between anxiety and depression with smartphone addiction among college students: The mediating effect of executive dysfunction
title_fullStr The relationship between anxiety and depression with smartphone addiction among college students: The mediating effect of executive dysfunction
title_full_unstemmed The relationship between anxiety and depression with smartphone addiction among college students: The mediating effect of executive dysfunction
title_short The relationship between anxiety and depression with smartphone addiction among college students: The mediating effect of executive dysfunction
title_sort relationship between anxiety and depression with smartphone addiction among college students: the mediating effect of executive dysfunction
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9874858/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36710811
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1033304
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