Self-Consistency Congruence and Smartphone Addiction in Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Subjective Well-Being and the Moderating Role of Gender

Frontiers in Psychology

Chun Li²  Xiaoqing Ma²  Yang Li²  Chuanhua Gu² 

[1] Center of Mental Health Education, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China;Central China Normal University Branch, Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment Toward Basic Education Quality, Wuhan, China;Key Laboratory of Adolescent Cyberpsychology and Behavior (Central China Normal University), Ministry of Education, Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Human Development and Mental Health, Wuhan, China;

关键词: subjective well-being;    mobile phone addiction;    gender;    mediating effect;    self-consistency congruence;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2021.766392

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Adolescent smartphone addiction has increasingly attracted the attention of scholars because of the widespread use of internet technology in educational environments. In addition, previous studies have found that there is a complex relationship between smartphone addiction and self-consistency congruence, and subjective well-being. This research was conducted to examine whether subjective well-being would mediate the relation between self-consistency congruence and adolescent smartphone addiction, and whether gender would moderate the mediating process. A total of 1,011 Chinese adolescents completed self-report questionnaires measuring self-consistency congruence, subjective well-being, and smartphone addiction. Self-consistency congruence was shown to be a significant predictor of smartphone addiction. Furthermore, subjective well-being partially mediated the association between self-consistency congruence and adolescent smartphone addiction. Gender could moderate the mediating process; as compared with boys, girls’ self-consistency congruence and subjective well-being are more easily mediated. We envision the findings as being helpful in guiding scholars who are developing interventions to minimize smartphone addiction and its disrupting effects in adolescents.

【 授权许可】

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