The effects of shyness and loneliness on cell phone dependence in college students

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (9) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Yan Chen
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Loneliness Scale ◽  
Mobile Phone Addiction ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

I explored the relationships among shyness, loneliness, and cell phone dependence (CPD) in college students, with a special focus on the mediating effect of loneliness in the relationship between shyness and CPD. Participants were 593 students recruited from a college in Henan, China, and they completed the Cheek and Buss Shyness Scale, the UCLA Loneliness Scale–Short Form, and the Mobile Phone Addiction Index. The results show that shyness was significantly correlated with both loneliness and CPD, and that loneliness partially mediated the effect of shyness on CPD. These findings shed light on how shyness predicts CPD and have implications for preventing CPD in college students.

scholarly journals The Influence of Social Anxiety on Mobile Phone Addiction: The Buff-er Effect of Belief in a Fair World

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuyang Lv
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
Significant Positive Correlation ◽  
Just World ◽  
Just World Belief ◽  
Mobile Phone Addiction ◽  
Belief Scale ◽  
The Relationship

<p>Using the Mobile Phone Addiction Scale, Social Anxiety Scale and Justice World Belief Scale, this paper investigated 647 college students in a university in Hubei Province, and investigated the influence of social anxiety of college students on mobile phone addiction and the moderating effect of justice world belief in it. The results show that: (1) there is a significant positive correlation between social anxiety and cell phone addiction among college students; (2) just world belief plays a regulating role in the relationship between social anxiety and cell phone addiction. with the improvement of just world belief, the relationship between social anxiety and cell phone addiction gradually weakens and eventually disappears.</p>

Mindfulness and cell phone dependence: The mediating role of social adaptation

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (10) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Weiling Wang ◽  
Yuyan Qian ◽  
Yuping Wang ◽  
Yuhong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Social Adaptation ◽  
Smartphone Addiction ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Predictive Effect

We explored the mediating role of social adaptation in the relationship between mindfulness and cell phone dependence among college students. Data were obtained from 937 college students, who completed the Smartphone Addiction Inventory, the Adolescent Mindfulness Measure, and the Social Adaptation Questionnaire. The results suggest that mindfulness and social adaptation were significantly and negatively correlated with cell phone dependence, and that the mindfulness level of college students had a significant direct predictive effect on their cell phone dependence. We also found a significant mediating effect of social adaptation in the relationship between mindfulness and cell phone dependence. These findings are of significance to the prevention of and intervention in young people's cell phone dependence.

scholarly journals Investigating the Mediating Role of Procrastination in the Relationship between Positive and Negative Perfectionism and Mobile Phone Addiction in Gifted Students

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nader Ayadi ◽  
Saeed Pireinaladin ◽  
Mehdi Shokri ◽  
Shahriyar Dargahi ◽  
Fatemeh Zarein
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Gifted Students ◽  
Cluster Sampling ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Mobile Phone Addiction ◽  
Indirect Relationship ◽  
The Relationship

Objective: Adolescence is a critical period in terms of development and education, in which there are numbers of highrisk behaviors that can negative effects on personal and educational life. One of these high-risk behaviors is mobile phone addiction that is a sociopsychological phenomenon, and the lack of control in the use of this technology by students can cause damage to various aspects of their personal and educational lives. The aim of the present study was to investigate the mediating role of procrastination in the relationship between positive and negative perfectionism and addiction to mobile phone in gifted students. Method: This was a descriptive and correlational study in which 200 gifted students from gifted students’ high school of Meshghinshahr were selected using cluster sampling in 2020. Tri-Shot Perfectionism questionnaires, Tuckman Procrastination Scale, and Savari Mobile Phone Addiction questionnaire were applied to collect data. Descriptive statistics, correlation matrix, and path analysis (Structural Model) were used to analyze data. Results: The findings revealed positive and negative perfectionism was not directly related to cell phone addiction. However, positive perfectionism through procrastination meditation had a negative and indirect relationship with mobile phone addiction (β = -0.18), and negative perfectionism through procrastination meditation had a positive and indirect relationship with mobile phone addiction (β = 0.17). In other words, procrastination is a complete mediation in the relationship between negative and positive perfectionism and cell phone addiction in students (β = 0.29). Conclusion: The results emphasized the effect of procrastination on the relationship between positive and negative perfectionism and mobile phone addiction in gifted students. Therefore, these findings can help school and rehabilitation counselors to prepare programs for reducing students' addictive and avoidant behaviors.

scholarly journals The Influence of Loneliness on The Mobile Phone Addiction of Contemporary College Students: The Mediating Role of Online Social Support

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. p1
Author(s):  
Wang Bei ◽  
Su Yitong ◽  
Li Zeyu
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
College Students ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Online Social Support ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Mobile Phone Addiction ◽  
Support Methods ◽  
The Impact

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of loneliness on the mobile phone addiction, and to investigate the role of the psychological variable of online social support. Methods: 622 college students were surveyed by using the mobile phone addiction index (MPAI) scale, Online Social Support Questionnaire for College Students and the short-form of the UCLA Loneliness Scale. Results: The main effect of online social support and the mobile phone addiction on education level was significant. Loneliness was negatively correlated with online social support and the mobile phone addiction, online social support is positively correlated with the mobile phone addiction. Online social support was a complete mediator between loneliness and the mobile phone addiction.

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