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The Relationship Between Mindfulness and Mobile Phone Addiction Tendency: The Roles of Boredom Proneness and Future Time Perspective

YANG Xiujuan1,2, FAN Cuiying1,2, ZHOU Zongkui1,2, LIU Qingqi1,3, LIAN Shuailei1,4   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Adolescent Cyberpsychology and Behavior, Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430079;
    2. School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079;
    3. Research Center of Adolescent Psychology and Behavior, School of Education, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006;
    4. College of Education and Sports Science, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434023
  • Published:2021-05-18

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Abstract: The present study investigated the relationship between mindfulness and mobile phone addiction tendency in college students and the mediating role of boredom proneness as well as the moderating role of future time perspective. A sample of 790 college students completed questionnaires measuring mindfulness, boredom proneness, mobile phone addiction tendency, and future time perspective. The results showed that:(1) Mindfulness could negatively predict mobile phone addiction tendency; (2) Boredom proneness mediated the relationship between mindfulness and mobile phone addiction tendency; (3) Future time perspective moderated the indirect relationship between mindfulness and mobile phone addiction tendency through boredom proneness, with the indirect relationship being stronger for college students with lower levels of future time perspective. These findings shed light on how mindfulness links to mobile phone addiction tendency and under what conditions the relationship between mindfulness and mobile phone addiction tendency becomes stronger or weaker. The present study can provide constructive suggestions for prevention and intervention of college students' mobile phone addiction in the era of mobile internet.

Key words: mindfulness, boredom proneness, mobile phone addiction tendency, future time perspective, college students

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