Problematic mobile phone use and cyberbullying perpetration in adolescents

Shin, Woosik; Kim, Hee-Woong

doi:10.1080/0144929x.2022.2104756

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“…2 Though smartphones provide great convenience, its prolonged use may put adolescents at higher risks for smartphone addiction. 3 “Smartphone” and “mobile phone” in recent research seem to synonymously refer to mobile devices with capabilities for email, text messaging, video viewing, and wireless Internet access, 4 , 5 and their addictive use has been described by diverse terms such as smartphone/mobile phone addiction, 6 , 7 problematic smartphone/mobile phone use, 8 , 9 or excessive smartphone/mobile phone use. 10 , 11 Although a proper terminology for this phenomenon is an ongoing controversy, the term “smartphone addiction” has been increasingly recommended.…”

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Psychological needs satisfaction and smartphone addiction among Chinese adolescents: The mediating roles of social anxiety and loneliness

Sun,

Li,

et al. 2023

DIGITAL HEALTH

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Objectives Although previous studies have initially noted that psychological needs satisfaction (PNS) might be a significant risk factor for technology addiction (e.g. online gaming addiction and Internet addiction), specific mechanisms involved in the association between PNS and adolescent smartphone addiction are largely unknown. Based on self-determination theory, this cross-sectional study constructed a multiple mediation model to examine whether PNS will influence adolescent smartphone addiction through the mediating roles of social anxiety and loneliness. Methods Eight hundred and ninety-nine Chinese adolescents answered the questionnaire including measures of PNS, social anxiety, loneliness, and smartphone addiction. SPSS 24.0 was used for common method bias test, reliability test, and correlation analysis, and Mplus 7.4 was used to examine the mediating roles of social anxiety and loneliness in the multiple mediation model. Results This study found that (1) PNS was negatively associated with adolescent smartphone addiction; (2) loneliness significantly mediated the association between PNS and smartphone addiction while the mediating role of social anxiety in this association was nonsignificant; and (3) social anxiety and loneliness also sequentially mediated this association. Conclusion This study further enriched potential mechanisms linking PNS and smartphone addiction among adolescents, which may contribute to intervention and prevention programs for adolescent smartphone addiction from the perspective of improving both PNS and negative emotions including social anxiety and loneliness.

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Psychological needs satisfaction and smartphone addiction among Chinese adolescents: The mediating roles of social anxiety and loneliness

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“…More recently, with a higher incidence of cyberbullying in the online environment, existing research pointed out that cyberbullying might also be an outcome of strain, and mainly analyzed what and how variables can influence the relations between strain and cyberbullying ( Brailovskaia et al, 2018 ; Lianos and McGrath, 2018 ; Shin and Kim, 2022 ; Wilson and Seigfried-Spellar, 2022 ). For cyberbullying research, studies have provided a standard view, stating that engagement in cyberbullying was the result of physical, emotional, or psychological strain ( Jang et al, 2014 ; Lianos and McGrath, 2018 ), and participation in cyberbullying through strain-based factors (e.g., receiving bad grades, being treated unfairly by someone, victimization, and relationship issues) was a response to strain ( Patchin and Hinduja, 2011 ).…”

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The impact of strain, constraints, and morality on different cyberbullying roles: A partial test of Agnew’s general strain theory

Li¹,

Peng²

2022

Front. Psychol.

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The strain has been well studied in traditional bullying, and recent research has begun to explore it in cyberbullying behavior. Drawing from General Strain Theory, the current study empirically examined the relationship between strain and the cyberbullying behavior of perpetrators and bully-victims, respectively. Meanwhile, this study also considered the influences of the protective variables (e.g., constraints and morality) on the strain, which may potentially reduce the risks of participating in cyberbullying. The sample comprised 928 Chinese internet users (Male = 490, Female = 438) aged between 16 to 50. We identified the prevalence of cyberbullying in China, in which the percentages of cyberbullying perpetrators, cyberbullying victims, and cyber bully–victims were 23.40, 23.20, and 37.40%, respectively. This study mentioned a noteworthy phenomenon: cyberbullying victims quickly became cyberbullying perpetrators when they were cyberbullied. Secondly, according to the binary logistic regression, we hold that the strain was significantly related to cyberbullying behaviors, as individuals with low levels of self-control showed a higher tendency to participate in cyberbullying. As for protective factors, the results showed that constraints and morality can reduce the negative consequences of strain and then against cyberbullying, exploring the possibilities of using constraints and morality as variables to decrease strain and prevent cyberbullying. Thus, the unique values of this study are using the GST theory to investigate the empirical link between strain and cyberbullying between different roles in a new cultural and social background, demonstrating that negative emotion and low self-control had influences on strain and cyberbullying behaviors. Meanwhile, this study also contributes by discussing the implications for future research and practicing efforts targeting how to decrease the risks of cyberbullying engagement, for example, we suggest that the prevention and intervention of cyberbullying should adopt a cross-sectoral response to help individuals to view cyberbullying, vent dissatisfaction and relieve strain in the right way.

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How to cope with the negative health information avoidance behavior in a pandemic: the role of resilience

Liu,

Li,

Shen

et al. 2024

Behaviour & Information Technology

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Problematic mobile phone use and cyberbullying perpetration in adolescents

Cited by 4 publications

References 96 publications

Psychological needs satisfaction and smartphone addiction among Chinese adolescents: The mediating roles of social anxiety and loneliness

Psychological needs satisfaction and smartphone addiction among Chinese adolescents: The mediating roles of social anxiety and loneliness

The impact of strain, constraints, and morality on different cyberbullying roles: A partial test of Agnew’s general strain theory

How to cope with the negative health information avoidance behavior in a pandemic: the role of resilience

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