The Mental Health Center, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China.
Department of Social Psychiatry and Mental Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 3050006, Japan.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Mar 9;18(5):2748. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18052748.
The association between perfectionism and addictive behaviors has been examined in previous literature; however, few pieces of research have investigated the mediating and moderating mechanisms underlying this relationship. Using a sample of 2016 Chinese college students, the present study examined the mediator of depression between maladaptive perfectionism and Internet addiction and the moderator of gender in such associations. The findings indicated that maladaptive perfectionism was directly related to students' Internet addiction and indirectly predicted students' Internet addiction via the mediator of depression. Gender moderated the direct effect, rather than the indirect effect, of maladaptive perfectionism on Internet addiction. Even though males reported a lower score on Internet addiction compared to females, the effect of maladaptive perfectionism on Internet addiction was stronger for males than for females. These findings revealed the psychological mechanisms from perfectionism to Internet addiction, which contributed to the theoretical development in addiction research and provided implications for interventions to reduce Internet addiction among Chinese college students.
先前的文献研究已经探讨了完美主义与成瘾行为之间的关系；然而，很少有研究调查这种关系背后的中介和调节机制。本研究使用了 2016 名中国大学生的样本，检验了适应不良完美主义与网络成瘾之间抑郁的中介作用，以及这种关联中性别调节作用。研究结果表明，适应不良完美主义与学生的网络成瘾直接相关，并且通过抑郁的中介作用间接预测了学生的网络成瘾。性别调节了适应不良完美主义对网络成瘾的直接影响，而不是间接影响。尽管男性报告的网络成瘾得分低于女性，但适应不良完美主义对男性网络成瘾的影响强于女性。这些发现揭示了从完美主义到网络成瘾的心理机制，这有助于成瘾研究的理论发展，并为减少中国大学生网络成瘾的干预措施提供了启示。
