Background
Excessive online social network sites (SNSs) use, such as Facebook or WeChat overuse, has become a severe problem and have caused negative consequences. It is especially important to examine what causes excessive WeChat use in the Chinese population. This study explored the critical role of affective states and WeChat use intensity in the relationship between psychological needs satisfaction and excessive WeChat use based on the self-determination theory and the emotional motivation theory.
Methods
952 Chinese college students aged 18 to 25 completed an online survey that measured psychological needs satisfaction, depression, anxiety, WeChat use intensity, and excessive WeChat use.
Results
Path analysis demonstrated that anxiety, depression, and WeChat use intensity mediated the effect of psychological needs satisfaction on excessive WeChat use. More importantly, the chain mediation model indicated that psychological needs satisfaction could influence excessive WeChat use through the “anxiety—WeChat use intensity” path, but not the “depression—WeChat use intensity” path.
Conclusion
The current study could not only contribute to theoretical development, but also guide mental health practice by showing that improving psychological needs satisfaction may restrain excessive WeChat use through regulating affective states and Wechat use intensity.
This paper takes the cognition and education management method of withdrawal reaction for students with internet addiction as the research objective and adopts the research methods of literature method, brain science experiment and data analysis. This paper also introduces the EEG signal analysis method and use nonlinear dynamic analysis method and event-related potential technology, performing collection and data arrangement of EEG signals, SPN and P300 waveforms of prefrontal lobe of students with Internet addiction, analyzing behavioral characteristics and neurological changes in brain of students with Internet addiction from the perspectives of behavioral and EEG data. On this basis, the management method of withdrawal education for students with Internet addiction is proposed.
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