Psychological Development and Education ›› 2023, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (5): 743-751.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2023.05.16

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The Relationship between Problematic Social Media Use and Online Social Anxiety: The Roles of Social Media Cognitive Overload and Dispositional Mindfulness

CHEN Bizhong1,2,3, ZHENG Xue3, SUN Xiaojun1,2,4   

  1. 1. School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079;
    2. Key Laboratory of Adolescent Cyberpsychology and Behavior (CCNU), Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430079;
    3. School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631;
    4. Central China Normal University Branch, Collaborative Innovation Center of Assement toward Basic Education Quality, Wuhan 430079
  • Published:2023-09-11
  • Supported by:
    The project was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2019YFC1905301);National Natural Science Foundation of China (22078115,21776108,21690083,22008078).

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Abstract: Online anxiety is soaring and spreading in the Internet age, yet little research is known about the underlying mechanism of the maladaptive Internet use on online social anxiety. In the current study, 458 students from two universities in Fujian and Guangdong Province self-reported their levels of online social anxiety, problematic social media use, social media cognitive overload, and dispositional mindfulness via questionnaires. The results showed that: (1) Problematic social media use was positively associated with online social anxiety; (2) Social media cognitive overload partially mediated the relationship between problematic social media use and online social anxiety; (3) The mediating role of social media cognitive overload was moderated by the level of dispositional mindfulness; to be more specific, the mediating effect was stronger for college students with lower dispositional mindfulness.

Key words: online social anxiety, problematic social media use, social media cognitive overload, dispositional mindfulness

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  • B844
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