Can emotion regulation difficulty lead to adolescent problematic smartphone use? A moderated mediation model of depression and perceived social support

Fu, Linqian; Wang, Pengcheng; Zhao, Meng; Xie, Xin; Chen, Ye; Nie, Jia

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2019.104660

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“…Some research has found that social support could attenuate the relationships between personal risk factors and health outcomes and behaviors ( 69 – 71 ). For example, it was found that PSS moderated the relation between depression and adolescent problematic smartphone use ( 72 ), and the relation between psychological insecurity and depression ( 73 ). IU is, understandably, a personal risk factor that may cause negative psychological outcomes (e.g., anxiety, depression) ( 54 , 55 ).…”

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Media Exposure to COVID-19 Predicted Acute Stress: A Moderated Mediation Model of Intolerance of Uncertainty and Perceived Social Support

Chen

Zhang

et al. 2021

Front. Psychiatry

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Background: Previous studies have found that disaster-related media exposure could predict acute stress responses. However, few studies have investigated the relationship between media exposure to COVID-19 and acute stress, and less is known about the mechanisms that translate media exposure to COVID-19 into acute stress. The current study explored the impact of media exposure to COVID-19 on acute stress, and examined the mediating role of intolerance of uncertainty (IU) and the moderating role of perceived social support (PSS).Methods: A total of 1,483 Chinese participants (Mage = 27.93 years, SD = 8.45) completed anonymous online questionnaires regarding media exposure to COVID-19, IU, PSS, and acute stress during the COVID-19 outbreak in China.Results: Media exposure to COVID-19 was positively related to acute stress, and IU partially mediated this relationship. The direct effect of media exposure to COVID-19 on acute stress, and the relationship between IU and acute stress, were both moderated by PSS. The impacts of both media exposure to COVID-19 and IU on acute stress were stronger for individuals with low PSS.Limitations: This study collected data in a shorter timeframe, and no assessments occurred during the follow-up, which may prevent us from detecting the changes of the relationships between variables over time. Meanwhile, the self-report method limited the validity of the data due to subjective reporting bias.Conclusions: These findings contribute to a better understanding of how and when pandemic-related media exposure affects acute stress, and provide new perspectives for the prevention to reduce psychological problems following traumatic events.

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Section: Theoretical Background and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Media Exposure to COVID-19 Predicted Acute Stress: A Moderated Mediation Model of Intolerance of Uncertainty and Perceived Social Support

Chen

Zhang

et al. 2021

Front. Psychiatry

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“…When surrounded by negative mood, behaviors that could provide immediate reward seem to be the best choice to downregulate negative emotions. As the most convenient and accessible electronic equipment, mobile phones that can satisfy multiple needs instantly may easily become a readily available means to relieve stress (Cho et al, 2017;Fu et al, 2020;Monacis et al, 2020). Second, negative emotion can reduce an individual's resistance to addictive temptations by weakening the ability of self-control (Cho et al, 2017) and inhibiting the activities of executive function (Eldar and Bar-Haim, 2010).…”

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Trait Procrastination and Mobile Phone Addiction Among Chinese College Students: A Moderated Mediation Model of Stress and Gender

Yang

Wang

2020

Front. Psychol.

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Recent studies have indicated that trait procrastination as a personality factor could lead to mobile phone addiction, however little is known about the mediating and moderating mechanisms underlying this process. The current study investigated the mediating role of stress in the relationship between trait procrastination and mobile phone addiction, and whether the mediating effect was moderated by gender. A sample including 1,004 Chinese college students completed measurements of trait procrastination, stress, mobile phone addiction, and demographic information. The results showed that trait procrastination was positively related to college students’ mobile phone addiction. Mediation analyses revealed that this relationship was partially mediated by stress. Moderated mediation further indicated that the path between trait procrastination and stress was stronger for male students compared with female students. These findings broadened our knowledge of the underlying mechanisms between trait procrastination and mobile phone addiction, the implications and limitations of this study were discussed.

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“…They found that cognitive reappraisal, which can be both an effective and ineffective strategy for regulating emotional responses to negative events, was positively associated with heavier smartphone use, and heavy use of smartphones was associated with increased problematic use. Fu et al 13 and Extremera, Quintana-Orts [14] found similar results with an adolescent sample whereby emotion regulation difficulties were associated with greater problematic smartphone use. It may be that emotion regulation difficulties are associated with being more distressed and therefore an increase in reliance on smartphones for comfort, reassurance, or emotional distraction in lieu of more adaptive emotion management 37 .…”

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confidence: 66%

“…Two proposed dispositional mechanisms are emotion regulation difficulties and personality. A poor ability to regulate emotional responses to negative experiences appears to be associated with greater problematic smartphone use in adults 6,11,12 and adolescents [13][14][15] . Similarly, broad personality traits, particularly high neuroticism and low conscientiousness, have also been found to predict greater problematic smartphone use [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] .…”

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Emotional Regulation Difficulties, Personality, and Problematic Smartphone Use

Horwood¹,

Anglim²

2020

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Emotion regulation has been proposed as a mechanism for the development of problematic smartphone use. In addition to examining the relationship between emotional regulation difficulties and problematic smartphone use, the current study sought to be the first to examine the relationship between subscales of emotion regulation difficulties and problematic smartphone use. It also sought to determine whether emotion regulation difficulties provide incremental prediction of problematic smartphone use over and above personality. Participants were 692 Australian university students (81% female; age in years M = 25.23, SD = 7.48). They completed a measure of problematic smartphone use, the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, and a measure of Big Five personality (IPIP 120). Overall emotion regulation difficulties (r = .40) and impulse control difficulties (r = .42) were moderately associated with problematic smartphone use, as were the Big Five factors of neuroticism (r = .43) and conscientiousness (r = -.38). Although emotion regulation difficulties predicted problematic smartphone use, they did not provide incremental prediction over and above the Big Five. Findings indicate that personality is a robust predictor of problematic smartphone use. Emotion regulation difficulties, such as impulsivity, offer insights into the specific ways that personality is expressed in problematic smartphone use.

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Can emotion regulation difficulty lead to adolescent problematic smartphone use? A moderated mediation model of depression and perceived social support

Cited by 54 publications

References 71 publications

Media Exposure to COVID-19 Predicted Acute Stress: A Moderated Mediation Model of Intolerance of Uncertainty and Perceived Social Support

Media Exposure to COVID-19 Predicted Acute Stress: A Moderated Mediation Model of Intolerance of Uncertainty and Perceived Social Support

Trait Procrastination and Mobile Phone Addiction Among Chinese College Students: A Moderated Mediation Model of Stress and Gender

Emotional Regulation Difficulties, Personality, and Problematic Smartphone Use

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