Wu Bin, Liu Tianyuan, Tian Beihai
Rural Construction & Management Research Center, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China.
School of Sociology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Front Psychol. 2023 Feb 14;14:1108692. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1108692. eCollection 2023.
Previous studies have explored the impact of social media use on people's subjective well-being, but there is a lack of discussion on the relationship between social media use, Internet addiction, and subjective well-being, and the research on the influence of digital skills on this relationship is not sufficient. This paper aims to fill these gaps. Based on the flow theory, this paper takes Chinese residents as the research object and uses CGSS 2017 data to analyze the impact of social media use on people's subjective well-being.
Our study used multiple linear regression models for analysis. To test the hypotheses and the moderated mediation model, we adopted PROCESS models with 5000 bias-corrected bootstrap samples and 95% confidence intervals. All analyses were conducted using SPSS 25.0.
The empirical analysis shows that social media use has a positive direct effect on subjective well-being, and Internet addiction plays a suppressing role in the relationship between social media use and subjective well-being. In addition, we found that digital skills moderated the positive effect of social media use on Internet addiction and the indirect effect of social media use on subjective well-being through Internet addiction.
The conclusion of this paper supports our previous hypothesis. Besides, the theoretical contribution, practical significance, and limitations of this study are discussed based on the results of previous studies.
以往的研究探讨了社交媒体使用对人们主观幸福感的影响，但缺乏对社交媒体使用、网络成瘾与主观幸福感之间关系的讨论，且关于数字技能对这种关系影响的研究也不够充分。本文旨在填补这些空白。基于心流理论，本文以中国居民为研究对象，利用2017年中国综合社会调查（CGSS）数据来分析社交媒体使用对人们主观幸福感的影响。
我们的研究使用多元线性回归模型进行分析。为了检验假设和调节中介模型，我们采用了具有5000个偏差校正自助抽样样本和95%置信区间的PROCESS模型。所有分析均使用SPSS 25.0进行。
实证分析表明，社交媒体使用对主观幸福感有正向直接影响，网络成瘾在社交媒体使用与主观幸福感的关系中起抑制作用。此外，我们发现数字技能调节了社交媒体使用对网络成瘾的正向影响以及社交媒体使用通过网络成瘾对主观幸福感的间接影响。
本文的结论支持了我们之前的假设。此外，基于以往研究的结果，讨论了本研究的理论贡献、实际意义和局限性。
