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Fear of Negative Evaluation and Problematic Mobile Phone Use: The Serial Mediating Effect of Social Anxiety and Loneliness

QUAN Fangying1,3,4, LEI Xiaofang2, LIANG Binqi1,3,4, WANG Lu5, LI Honghan1,3,4   

  1. 1. Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004;
    2. Guangxi Vocational College of Water Resources and Electric Power, Nanning 53000;
    3. Research Center for the Development of Guangxi Ethnic Education, Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences in Guangxi Universities, Guilin 541004;
    4. Guangxi University and College Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Applied Psychology, Guilin 541004;
    5. Jiangxi Medical Technician College, Nanchang 330001
  • Published:2024-05-15

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Abstract: The purpose of this study was to explore whether social anxiety and loneliness play mediating role in the relationship between fear of negative evaluation and problematic mobile phone use. 666 college and middle school students (Mage= 18.33, SD= 2.33) was surveyed by Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale, Interaction Anxiousness Scale, UCLA Loneliness Scale Short Form, and Mobile Phone Problem Use Scale. The results indicated that: (1) There was significant positive correlations among fear of negative evaluation, social anxiety, loneliness, and problematic mobile phone use; (2) Social anxiety and loneliness played mediating role in the relationship between fear of negative evaluation and problematic mobile phone use, respectively; (3) Social anxiety and loneliness also played sequential mediating role in the relationship between fear of negative evaluation and problematic mobile phone use. This study revealed the mental mechanism between fear of negative evaluation and problematic mobile phone use in college and middle school students. And it provided suggestions on how to prevent and intervene in problematic mobile phone use among college and middle school students.

Key words: problematic mobile phone use, fear of negative evaluation, social anxiety, loneliness

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  • B844
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