Differentiation of self, emotion management skills, and nomophobia among smartphone users: The mediating and moderating roles of intolerance of uncertainty

Ercengiz, Mustafa; Yildiz, Banu; Savcı, Mustafa; Griffiths, Mark D.

doi:10.1080/03623319.2020.1833148

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“…The intolerance of uncertainty and the anxiety sensitivity have a significant relationship with fear of COVID-19 (Hashemi et al, 2020;McKay et al, 2020;Satıcı et al, 2020b). Intolerance of uncertainty was found significantly associated with the fear of COVID-19, and this finding was consistent with the results of various studies (Bakioğlu et al, 2020;Elhai et al, 2020;Ercengiz et al, 2020;Hashemi et al, 2020;Jungmann & Witthöft, 2020;Mertens et al, 2020; Mediation Role of Anxiety Sensitivity on the Relationships between Intolerance of Uncertainty and Fear of COVID-19 5 anales de psicología / annals of psychology, 2022, vol. 38, nº 1 (january) Satıcı et al, 2020a;Satıcı et al, 2020b).…”

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Mediation Role of Anxiety Sensitivity on the Relationships between Intolerance of Uncertainty and Fear of COVID-19

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The aim of the present study is exploring the mediation role of anxiety sensitivity on the relationships between intolerance of uncertainty and fear of COVID-19. The study was conducted with the relational screening method. The research data were collected online from 302 individuals (Male n = 76, Female n = 226) with Fear of COVID-19 Scale, Anxiety Sensitivity Index-3, Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale. The result of both mediation analysis and bootstrapping analysis (with 5000 bootstrap resamples) showed that the relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and fear of COVID-19 was mediated by anxiety sensitivity. Anxiety sensitivity decreased the effect of intolerance of uncertainty on fear of COVID-19. Moreover, comparing intolerance of uncertainty and anxiety sensitivity in terms of their predictive levels of the fear of COVID-19, it was concluded that anxiety sensitivity predicted the fear of COVID-19 more, and that anxiety sensitivity included the variance of intolerance to uncertainty associated with the fear of COVID-19. El objetivo del presente estudio es explorar el papel mediador de la sensibilidad a la ansiedad en las relaciones entre la intolerancia a la incertidumbre y el miedo al COVID-19. El estudio se realizó con el método de cribado relacional. Los datos de la investigación se recopilaron en línea de 302 personas (hombres n = 76, mujeres n = 226) con la escala de miedo a COVID-19, índice de sensibilidad a la ansiedad-3, escala de intolerancia a la incertidumbre. El resultado tanto del análisis de mediación como del análisis bootstrapping (con un remuestreo de 5000 bootstrap) mostró que la relación entre la intolerancia a la incertidumbre y el miedo al COVID-19 estaba mediada por la sensibilidad a la ansiedad. La sensibilidad a la ansiedad disminuyó el efecto de la intolerancia a la incertidumbre sobre el miedo al COVID-19. Además, al comparar la intolerancia a la incertidumbre y la sensibilidad a la ansiedad en términos de sus niveles predictivos del miedo al COVID-19, se concluyó que la sensibilidad a la ansiedad predijo más el miedo al COVID-19 y que la sensibilidad a la ansiedad incluyó la varianza de la intolerancia a la incertidumbre asociada. con el miedo al COVID-19.

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Mediation Role of Anxiety Sensitivity on the Relationships between Intolerance of Uncertainty and Fear of COVID-19

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“…We expected to find a direct effect of emotion regulation (in its two components) and social interaction anxiety on nomophobia, as reported in previous research (Anshari et al, 2019;Delavarpour et al, 2019;Ercenzig et al, 2020;Gonçalves et al, 2020;Kaur et al, 2021). Further, a mediation model in which loneliness was introduced as a mediator in the relationship between social interaction anxiety, emotion regulation, and nomophobia was proposed (Figure 1).…”

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confidence: 64%

“…Further, Ercenzig et al (2020), along with Brown and MedCalf-Bell (2022), evidenced that both poor emotion management skills and social interaction anxiety indirectly affected nomophobia through the intolerance of uncertainty. This means that both individuals with deficits in regulating their own emotions and those with scarce abilities in handling inperson social interactions tend to show higher levels of intolerance of uncertainty, and, in both situations, the attachment to and the dependence on smartphones increase as a way to alleviate unpleasant feelings.…”

Section: Nomophobia and Its Associations With Emotion Regulation Soci...mentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Some authors have linked nomophobia to the difficulties in emotion regulation (Delavarpour et al, 2019;Ercenzig et al, 2020;Gonçalves et al, 2020), highlighting that people with a poor ability in remodulating a situation, changing its meaning and emotional impact (cognitive reappraisal), and/or in inhibiting or reducing emotion-expressive behaviors (expressive suppression) tend to use their smartphones as a source of assurance and relief and a mean to escape from the emotive problems experienced in the real world, also reporting a maladaptive smartphone usage (Horwood & Anglim, 2021); consequently, when out of their mobile devices, these people are more prone to express irritability, nervousness, or anxiety, thus showing nomophobic symptoms.…”

Section: Nomophobia and Its Associations With Emotion Regulation Soci...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Effects of Difficulty in Handling Emotions and Social Interactions on Nomophobia: Examining the Mediating Role of Feelings of Loneliness

Valenti

Bottaro

Faraci

2022

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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This study was addressed to assess nomophobia in an Italian sample (N = 456, 53.1% men, Mage = 31.8, SD = 11.1), also providing a deeper knowledge about how it is distributed across demographics, as well as identifying its best predictors. The main goal was to investigate the direct and indirect effects of difficulty in emotion regulation and social interaction anxiety on nomophobia through loneliness. Our findings indicated that loneliness explained the effect of the expressive suppression strategy (fully) and social interaction anxiety (partially) on nomophobia, whereas it was not a significant mediator when the cognitive reappraisal strategy was taken into account. Our study suggests that loneliness during the pandemic plays a crucial role in explaining the associations between the investigated predictors and the outcome variable, offering a deeper understanding of the underlying mechanisms of this emerging construct. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed, and shortcomings and suggestions for future works are presented.

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“…For example, Carleton et al [24] found a country level, positive correlation, between IU and mobile phone penetration (the percent of people who use mobile phones in a country). Furthermore, nomophobia or the fear of being without one's phone has been linked with IU such that those people who have higher IU are more afraid of being without their phone for any length of time [25]. Finally, in a longitudinal mediation analysis, Rozgonjuk et al [26] found that IU correlated positively with nonsocial phone use but not social phone use.…”

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Phoning It in: Social Anxiety, Intolerance of Uncertainty, and Anxiety Reduction Motivations Predict Phone Use in Social Situations

Brown

Medcalf-Bell

2022

Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies

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Based on meta-analysis, a strong link between social anxiety and phone use has been established in the literature, but the underlying mechanisms of why social anxiety might cause people to use their phones are poorly understood. Intolerance of uncertainty is a transdiagnostic factor of many anxiety disorders and may help explain why socially anxious people tend to use their mobile phones as a tool to cope with, or distract from, inherently ambiguous social interactions. This nonexperimental, correlational study had four core aims: to examine whether increases in social anxiety would relate to (1) increased phone usage during social interactions in groups or (2) phone dependency; to examine whether intolerance of uncertainty and motivation of phone use mediated either of these relationships. To test these models, an opportunity sample of 252 participants completed a series of online questionnaires containing measures of social anxiety, intolerance of uncertainty, and phone usage. Correlational analysis of results showed increased phone dependency and phone use in social groups for people with high social anxiety. Serial mediation analysis showed that people who were more socially anxious also reported higher levels of intolerance of uncertainty, greater motives to use phones to reduce anxiety, and higher phone use. We discuss these results with specific reference to compensatory internet use theory. In sum, it appears that for people with social anxiety, phone use in social situations tends to be motivated by reducing anxiety.

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Differentiation of self, emotion management skills, and nomophobia among smartphone users: The mediating and moderating roles of intolerance of uncertainty

Cited by 17 publications

References 52 publications

Mediation Role of Anxiety Sensitivity on the Relationships between Intolerance of Uncertainty and Fear of COVID-19

Mediation Role of Anxiety Sensitivity on the Relationships between Intolerance of Uncertainty and Fear of COVID-19

Effects of Difficulty in Handling Emotions and Social Interactions on Nomophobia: Examining the Mediating Role of Feelings of Loneliness

Phoning It in: Social Anxiety, Intolerance of Uncertainty, and Anxiety Reduction Motivations Predict Phone Use in Social Situations

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