The Effect of College Students' Adaptability on Nomophobia: Based on Lasso Regression

Abstract

Smartphones can improve our lives, but also consume our lives. It is known that problematic mobile phone use, such as nomophobia, can lead to some mental health problems. So far, psychological factors behind nomophobia were yet to be fully discovered. Previous studies showed that individuals' adaptability was closely related to nomophobia. However, adaptability was a complex construct that contains various components, and it was unclear whether these components contributed equally to nomophobia. This study investigated 678 college students by using Chinese versions of the nomophobia questionnaire, mobile phone addiction tendency scale, and freshmen adaptability scale. Lasso regression was used to further explore the key factors that could affect nomophobia. Model results showed that the value of λ+1se was [0.303, 0.423] at the minimum mean squared error in the training data. Emotional adaptability significantly predicted the fear of being unable to access information (β = −0.022, p < 0.001), losing convenience (β = −0.067, p < 0.001), and losing Internet connection (β = −0.003, p < 0.01) after λ+1se was included in the testing data, and the R2 were 0.496, 0.483, and 0.493. Homesickness adaptability significantly predicted the fear of losing contact (β = −0.056, p < 0.05), and R2 was 0.508. In addition, similar results were obtained by using datasets of mobile phone addiction and adaptability. Therefore, we concluded that the emotional adaptability has an important effect on nomophobia. Additionally, we also found that homesickness adaptability has an important role in predicting fear of losing contact.

Data on mobile phone use, adaptability and adult attachment among college students in China

“…We provided the Chinese-version questionnaires and its translated version as supplementary files. For a further discussion of the major finding based on the dataset please see the article: The effect of college students’ adaptability on nomophobia based on lasso regression [2] . the Fig.…”

“…We used SPSS to perform descriptive statistical analysis and MPLUS to carry out lasso regression analysis with the collected data. For a discussion of the findings based on the dataset please see the article: The effect of college students’ adaptability on nomophobia based on lasso regression [2] .…”

The effect of emotion regulation strategies on nomophobia in college students: The masking role of resilience

“…Further research is required to determine whether emotion regulation strategies affect nomophobia. Emotional adaptation has been shown to have a significant impact on nomophobia, and individuals with nomophobia tend to adopt dysfunctional coping strategies [ 32 , 33 ]. Cognitive reappraisal is generally regarded as an adaptive strategy, and expressive suppression as a maladaptive coping strategy [ 34 ].…”

Exploring the structure of college students' adaptability by using cross‐lagged path analysis: The role of emotional adaptability

“…Erylmaz and Kara ( 2016 ) found that career adaptability consists of two components: career exploration and career planning. Cao and Mao ( 2008 ) developed one of the most popular measurements of adaptability in China (Cao & Luo, 2020 ; Lei & Zhou, 2017 ; Luo et al, 2021 ), comprising six dimensions: learning adaptability, professional adaptability, homesickness adaptability, interpersonal adaptability, emotional adaptability, and economic adaptability. Luo ( 2020 ) later simplified this scale into a 24‐item version based on the original scale.…”