ABSTRACT
Objective:To explore the latent categories of short video media use tendency among adolescents and the influence of personality traits on different categories.Methods:Totally 1 362 adolescents were tested by the five factors of adolescent personality questionnaire and the problematic short video media use scale in March 2022.SPSS 26.0 software was used for data collation and descriptive statistics.Mplus 8.3 software was used for latent profile analysis (LPA) to explore the latent categories of adolescents’ short video media use tendency.Regression mixed model (R3STEP) was used to explore the relationship between different categories of short video media use tendency and personality traits.Results:The short video media use tendency among adolescents was divided into 4 latent categories (by proportion from low to high): " problematic short video media use tendency type" (C4, 11%), " safe short video media use tendency type" (C3, 21%), " social short video media use tendency type" (C1, 29%), and " transitional short video media use tendency type" (C2, 39%). Different personality traits had different effects on the 4 latent categories of short video media use tendency, and using C3 as a reference, openness ( OR=1.95) was a triggering predictor of C1, neuroticism ( OR=0.72) was a protective predictor of C1; cautiousness ( OR=0.46) was a protective predictor of C2, neuroticism ( OR=1.60) was a triggering predictor of C2; cautiousness ( OR=0.33) was a protective predictor of C4, neuroticism ( OR=3.24) was a triggering predictor of C4. Conclusion:There are four different latent categories of Chinese adolescents' short video media use tendency, respectively " safe" , " social" , " transitional" and " problematic" . Further research reveal that, personality traits have a significant impact on the different categories of adolescents' short video media use tendency.This study suggests that educators reasonably guide " transitional" , intervene " problematic" , and focus on helping adolescents with high neuroticism to effectively regulate their negative emotions and reduce the occurrence of problematic short video use.