Yang Yuntong, Luo Yanhong, Chen Ming, Zhai Jie
Department of Applied Psychology, Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha, Hunan, People's Republic of China.
Psychol Res Behav Manag. 2023 Jul 3;16:2407-2416. doi: 10.2147/PRBM.S416183. eCollection 2023.
Mobile phone addiction has motivated a widespread concern in recent years. From a developmental perspective, this study explored the predictive relations between life events, boredom proneness (BP), and mobile phone addiction tendency (MPAT) among undergraduate students. It also tested the longitudinal mediation of BP between life events and MPAT.
Five hundred and eighty-four undergraduate students completed the Mobile Phone Addiction Tendency Scale, the Adolescent Self-Rating Life Events Checklist, and the Boredom Proneness Scale-Short Form. A longitudinal mediation analysis based on latent growth modeling was conducted to test the hypothesized relationships among life events, BP and MPAT.
Latent growth modeling (LGM) showed that the BP and MPAT of undergraduate students both increased linearly. A longitudinal model based on LGM showed that negative life events both directly and indirectly affected the initial level and the growth rate of the MPAT through the mediating effect of the initial level of BP.
These results reveal that negative life events are an indicator of the development of MPAT. It has practical implications for calling for adopting health coping styles when facing negative life events. Supported for reducing college students' boredom proneness in order to lessen the tendency towards mobile phone addiction to improve their mental health.
近年来，手机成瘾引发了广泛关注。从发展的角度来看，本研究探讨了大学生生活事件、无聊倾向（BP）和手机成瘾倾向（MPAT）之间的预测关系。同时，还检验了BP在生活事件和MPAT之间的纵向中介作用。
584名大学生完成了手机成瘾倾向量表、青少年自评生活事件清单和简版无聊倾向量表。基于潜在增长模型进行纵向中介分析，以检验生活事件、BP和MPAT之间的假设关系。
潜在增长模型（LGM）显示，大学生的BP和MPAT均呈线性增长。基于LGM的纵向模型表明，负性生活事件通过BP初始水平的中介作用直接和间接地影响MPAT的初始水平和增长率。
这些结果表明，负性生活事件是MPAT发展的一个指标。这对于呼吁在面对负性生活事件时采用健康的应对方式具有实际意义。支持降低大学生的无聊倾向，以减少手机成瘾倾向，改善他们的心理健康。
