Mediating effect of self-identity on relationship between interpersonal adaptation and mobile phone addiction tendency in college students / 中国心理卫生杂志

Objective:To explore the mediating effect of self-identity on the relationship between interpersonal adaptation and the tendency of mobile phone addiction in college students.Methods:Totally 498 college students (217 males and 281 females) were selected and assessed with the College Student Interpersonal Adaptability Inventory (CSIAI),Mobile Phone Addiction Tendency Scale (MPATS) and Personal Identity Scale(PIS).The bias-corrected percentile bootstrap method was used to analyze the mediating effect of self-identity between interpersonal adaptation and mobile phone addiction tendency in college students.Results:The MPATS scores of male students were significantly lower than female students [(2.6 ± 0.7) vs.(2.7 ± 0.6),P ＜ 0.05].The MPATS scores were negatively correlated with the scores of CSIAI and PIS (r =-0.31,-0.36,Ps ＜ 0.01),the CSIAI scores were positively correlated with the PIS scores (r =0.50,P ＜0.01).Self-identity played a partly mediating role between interpersonal adaptation and mobile phone addiction tendency,which accounted for 43.6％ of the total effect.Conclusion:It shows that the mobile phone addiction tendency may be related to interpersonal adaptation and self-identity,interpersonal adaptation could affect the mobile phone addiction tendency through the self-identity.

A path analysis on the relationships among coping style,personality characteristics and mobile phone addiction tendency among college students / 预防医学

Objective To explore the relationships among coping style,personality characteristics and mobile phone addiction tendency among college students.Methods Totally 276 clinical medical students were investigated using Mobile Phone Addiction Tendency Questionnaire(MPATS),Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire(SCSQ)and Eysenck Personality Questionnaire(EPQ).Results The mean scale score of the total 276 students was 36.56,and 46 students had high mobile phone addiction tendency while 1 42 students had low mobile phone addiction tendency.There were significant differences in negative coping style and personality characteristics among students with different mobile phone addiction tendency(P <0.05).The factors and total scores of mobile phone addiction tendency were positively related to personality characteristics (P <0.05 ).Negative coping style plays an intermediary role between the mobile phone addiction and personality characteristics.The influencing factor Neuroticism(path coefficient =0.486)influenced the mobile phone addiction most, followed by Psychot:cism (path coefficient =0.274).Conclusion Coping style plays an important intermediary role between mobile phone addiction and personality characteristics. Colleges and universities should strengthen the psychological health education to students,and rebuild the positive coping style.