School of Modern Logistics, Qingdao Harbour Vocational and Technical College, Qingdao, People's Republic of China.
Department of Physical Education, Xiamen University Tan Kah Kee College, Zhangzhou, People's Republic of China.
BMC Psychol. 2023 Feb 10;11(1):39. doi: 10.1186/s40359-023-01062-0.
Phubbing is a commonly seen phenomenon that has emerged in recent years among groups of college students, posing a rising challenge to educators. We conduct research in which the reciprocal relationship between problematic social media use and phubbing is explored and analysed quantitatively, aiming to discover reliable theoretical support to work out an appropriate intervention on students' phubbing for students' mental health concerns.
Using the problematic social media use scale and the phubbing scale, 328 college students from four universities in Shandong Province were enrolled in a two-stage longitudinal follow-up study for 20 months from December 2019 to August 2021. A cross-lagged model was constructed to explore the reciprocal relationship between problematic social media use and phubbing. The results of correlation analysis showed that problematic social media use was positively correlated with phubbing at both time points (r = 0.51, 0.53, P < 0.01).
The results of cross-lagged regression analysis showed that the predictive effect of pretest problematic social media use on posttest problematic social media use was statistically significant (β = 0.24, P < 0.01). There was statistical significance in the prediction effect of pretest phubbing on posttest phubbing (β = 0.16, P < 0.05). Pretest problematic social media use had statistical significance in predicting posttest phubbing (β = 0.22, P < 0.01), and there was no statistical significance in the prediction of pretest phubbing on posttest problematic social media (β = 0.16, P < 0.05).
The problematic social media use of college students is closely related to phubbing, and problematic social media use can predict phubbing.
低头症是近年来大学生群体中常见的一种现象，对教育工作者提出了越来越大的挑战。我们进行了一项研究，旨在通过定量分析社交媒体使用问题与低头症之间的相互关系，为解决学生低头症问题提供可靠的理论支持。
使用社交媒体使用问题量表和低头症量表，对山东省四所大学的 328 名大学生进行了为期 20 个月的两阶段纵向随访研究，时间跨度为 2019 年 12 月至 2021 年 8 月。构建交叉滞后模型，探讨社交媒体使用问题与低头症之间的相互关系。相关性分析结果显示，社交媒体使用问题在两个时间点上均与低头症呈正相关（r=0.51，0.53，P<0.01）。
交叉滞后回归分析结果显示，前测社交媒体使用问题对后测社交媒体使用问题的预测效应具有统计学意义（β=0.24，P<0.01）。前测低头症对后测低头症的预测效应具有统计学意义（β=0.16，P<0.05）。前测社交媒体使用问题对后测低头症具有统计学意义的预测效应（β=0.22，P<0.01），而前测低头症对后测社交媒体使用问题的预测效应无统计学意义（β=0.16，P<0.05）。
大学生社交媒体使用问题与低头症密切相关，社交媒体使用问题可以预测低头症。
