Intervention and effect evaluation of mobile social media use among college students / 中国学校卫生

ABSTRACT

Objective@#To explore the effect of mental health education on the problematic social media use among college students, and to provide the basis for college mental health education in colleges and universities.@*Methods@#Problematic Social Media Use was used to select 44 college students who were randomly assigned into experimental and control group. The experimental group received psychological intervention once a week for eight weeks, and the control group did not receive any intervention. Loneliness Scale,Univesity of California of Los Angels(UCLA), Multidimensional State Boredom Scale(MSBS), Interpersonal Anxiety Scale(IAS) were administered before and after the experiment in both of the groups.@*Results@#There was no significant differences between the experimental and the control group in total score of UCLA, MSBS, IAS and AQPMS. After intervention, prevalence of problematic mobile social media use in experimental group decreased from 100.0% to 45.8%. After intervention, significant differences in total score of UCLA, MSBS, IAS and AQPMS were observed in experimental group(P<0.05), as well as between the experimental group and the control group(P<0.05).@*Conclusion@#Mental health education can effectively reduce problematic mobile social media use, as well as negative emotions of college students.