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The Relationship between Need for Uniqueness and College Students’ Mobile Phone Addiction: The Chain Mediating Role of Anxiety and Effortful Control

WEI Hua1,2, DING Huimin2, HUANG Feng3,4, HE Anming2   

  1. 1. Normal College, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071;
    2. School of Educational Science, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang 464000;
    3. Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101;
    4. Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049
  • Published:2023-03-11

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Abstract: Based on the optimal distinctiveness theory and the interaction of the Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution model for internet addiction (I-PACE), this study examined the relationship between need for uniqueness and mobile phone addiction of college students and explored its mechanism (the chain mediating effect of anxiety and effortful control). In this study, 826 college students (Female=526, Mage=19.93, SD =1.38) were tested by the Need for Uniqueness Scale, Anxiety Scale, Effortful Control Scale and Mobile Phone Addiction Scale. The results showed that:(1) Need for uniqueness was positively correlated with anxiety and mobile phone addiction, negatively correlated with effortful control; anxiety was negatively correlated with effortful control, positively correlated with anxiety and mobile phone addiction; effortful control was negatively correlated with mobile phone addiction; (2) Anxiety and effortful control had significant mediating effects between need for uniqueness and mobile phone addiction. The chain mediating effect of anxiety and effortful control was also significant. In conclusion, the results of this study suggest that the need for uniqueness can not only be directly associated with college students’ mobile phone addiction but also through anxiety, effortful control, and their chain mediating effect, respectively. The results of this study support and expand the I-PACE model and provide a new direction for the prevention and intervention of mobile phone addiction.

Key words: need for uniqueness, mobile phone addiction, anxiety, effortful control, chain mediation

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  • B844
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