Chen Weijing, Wang Xiaoqian, Sun Shan, Liu Qian, Guo Zhiwen
Business School, Hubei University, Wuhan, China.
Hubei Center for Studies of Human Capital Development Strategy and Policy, Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Science of Hubei Province, Wuhan, China.
Front Psychol. 2022 Sep 15;13:942520. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.942520. eCollection 2022.
The relationship between neuroticism and mobile phone use is a hot research topic in the academic community. The purpose of this study was to investigate the roles of self-emotional assessment and love status in the mechanism through which college students' neuroticism influences mobile phone use.We construct a moderated mediation model, and taking 869 Chinese college students as the research object and testing the mediating role of self-emotional assessment and the moderating role of love status. The results show that: (1) neuroticism was significantly positively related to mobile phone use and significantly negatively related to self-emotional assessment; self-emotional assessment was significantly positively related to mobile phone use; (2) self-emotional assessment had a masking effect on the relationship between neuroticism and mobile phone use; (3) love status not only moderated the relationship between self-emotional assessment and mobile phone use but also moderated the process through which self-emotional assessment masked the effect of neuroticism on mobile phone use. Our research expands the literature on the mechanisms underlying the effects of neuroticism on mobile phone use, enriches the understanding of the pertinent boundary conditions, and provides a better explanatory basis for the mobile phone use of college students.
神经质与手机使用之间的关系是学术界一个热门的研究话题。本研究旨在探讨自我情绪评估和恋爱状况在大学生神经质影响手机使用的机制中所起的作用。我们构建了一个有调节的中介模型，以869名中国大学生为研究对象，检验自我情绪评估的中介作用和恋爱状况的调节作用。研究结果表明：（1）神经质与手机使用显著正相关，与自我情绪评估显著负相关；自我情绪评估与手机使用显著正相关；（2）自我情绪评估对神经质与手机使用之间的关系具有遮掩效应；（3）恋爱状况不仅调节了自我情绪评估与手机使用之间的关系，还调节了自我情绪评估遮掩神经质对手机使用影响的过程。我们的研究拓展了关于神经质对手机使用影响机制的文献，丰富了对相关边界条件的理解，并为大学生手机使用提供了更好的解释依据。
