Peer relationship and adolescents’ smartphone addiction: the mediating role of alienation and the moderating role of sex

Wang, Wei; Liu, Jing; Liu, Yongli; Wang, Pengcheng; Guo, Zhaoming; Hong, Defan; Jiang, Suo

doi:10.1007/s12144-022-03309-2

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“…At present, smartphone addiction has become a social problem that affects the healthy growth of adolescents. A large number of studies have found that smartphone addiction not only confers psychological and physiological effects on adolescents (e.g., anxiety, depression, and stress) but also negatively affects academic performance, coping styles, interpersonal relationships, etc., (Clayton et al, 2015 ; Samaha and Hawi, 2016 ; Lu et al, 2021 ; Diotaiuti et al, 2022 ; Wang et al, 2022 ; Yang et al, 2022 ; Zhang et al, 2022 ). Adolescents are in an important stage of developing peer relationships, pursuing autonomy and individuality, and changing behavior (Laursen and Hartl, 2013 ; Mak et al, 2014 ).…”

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The associations between smartphone addiction and self-esteem, self-control, and social support among Chinese adolescents: A meta-analysis

Ding

Wan

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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BackgroundSmartphone addiction has become a social problem that affects the healthy growth of adolescents, and it is frequently reported to be correlated with self-esteem, self-control, and social support among adolescents.MethodsA meta-analysis was conducted by searching the PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, PsycINFO, PsycArticles, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), WANFANG DATA, and Chongqing VIP Information Co., Ltd. (VIP) databases. Stata 16.0 was used to analyse the overall effect and test the moderating effect.ResultsFifty-six studies were included, involving a total of 42,300 participants. Adolescents' smartphone addiction had a moderately negative correlation with self-esteem (r = −0.25, 95% CI = −0.29 to −0.22, p < 0.001), a strong negative correlation with self-control (r = −0.48, 95% CI = −0.53 to −0.42, p < 0.001), and a weak negative correlation with social support (r = −0.16, 95% CI = −0.23 to −0.09, p < 0.001). Moderation analysis revealed that the correlation between adolescents' smartphone addiction and self-esteem was strongest when smartphone addiction was measured with the Mobile Phone Addiction Tendency Scale for College Students (MPATS; r = −0.38). The correlation between adolescents' smartphone addiction and self-control was strongest when self-control was measured with the Middle school students' Self-control Ability Questionnaire (MSAQ; r = −0.62). The effect of dissertations on smartphone addiction, self-control, and social support among adolescents was significantly larger than that of journal articles. The correlation between adolescents' smartphone addiction and social support was strongest when smartphone addiction was measured with the Mobile Phone Addiction Index (MPAI; r = −0.24). However, the correlations between adolescents' smartphone addiction and self-esteem, self-control, and social support were not affected by age or gender.ConclusionThere was a strong relationship between smartphone addiction and self-esteem, self-control, and social support among adolescents. In the future, longitudinal research should be carried out to better investigate the dynamic changes in therelationship between smartphone addiction and self-esteem, self-control, and social support.Systematic review registrationhttps://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/, identifier: CRD42022300061.

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The associations between smartphone addiction and self-esteem, self-control, and social support among Chinese adolescents: A meta-analysis

Ding

Wan

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…Further, gender has been shown to moderate the relationship between PSU and other variables. For example, researchers have found closer relationships between PSU and sleep duration (Yoon et al, 2021), PSU and alienation (W. Wang et al, 2022), and PSU and depression (Chen et al, 2017) in females than in males; and greater associations between PSU and peer relationships (W. Wang et al, 2022) and PSU and academic performance (Nayak, 2018) in males than in females.…”

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The effect of neuroticism on problematic smartphone use: A mediation model of self-control for males and females

Liu¹,

Wang²,

Zhang³

et al. 2023

Cyberpsychology

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Exploring the effect of certain factors on problematic smartphone use (PSU) and the mechanism of these effects may help researchers understand the antecedents of PSU and propose targeted interventions. Accordingly, the current study tested the mediating role of self-control and the moderating role of gender in the relationship between neuroticism and PSU. A sample of 768 Chinese smartphone users (439 female, 329 male) aged 14–37 years (M = 22.5, SD = 3.27) completed questionnaires on neuroticism, self-control, nomophobia, and mobile phone addiction. The results showed that females reported significantly higher PSU than males. In addition, for females, self-control partially mediated the relationship between neuroticism and PSU, while for males, neuroticism had only a direct effect on PSU. The findings shed light on the effect of neuroticism on PSU and highlight the importance of gender in this effect.

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Peer Relationship Problems, Fear of Missing Out, Family Affective Responsiveness, and Internet Addiction among Chinese Adolescents: A Moderated Mediation Model

Cheng,

Jiang

2024

Applied Research Quality Life

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Peer relationship and adolescents’ smartphone addiction: the mediating role of alienation and the moderating role of sex

Cited by 6 publications

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The associations between smartphone addiction and self-esteem, self-control, and social support among Chinese adolescents: A meta-analysis

The associations between smartphone addiction and self-esteem, self-control, and social support among Chinese adolescents: A meta-analysis

The effect of neuroticism on problematic smartphone use: A mediation model of self-control for males and females

Peer Relationship Problems, Fear of Missing Out, Family Affective Responsiveness, and Internet Addiction among Chinese Adolescents: A Moderated Mediation Model

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