Effect of shyness on college students’ phubbing: a moderated mediation model
XIAO Xiaofang1,2,3, ZHENG Xifu1,2,3
1. School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, Guangdong Province, China; 2. Center for Studies of Psychological Application, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, Guangdong Province, China; 3. Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, Guangzhou 510631, Guangdong Province, China
Abstract：Objective To explore the relations among shyness, phubbing, mobile phone addiction and self-control, and analyze the functional mechanism. Methods A total of 472 college students were surveyed online by using shyness scale, phubbing scale, self-control scale, and mobile phone addiction scale. The variations’ relations and possible moderation effects were analyzed. Results The results of correlation analysis showed that: shyness was significantly positively correlated with phubbing and mobile phone addiction, and significantly negatively correlated with self-control; phubbing was significantly positively correlated with mobile phone addiction, and significantly negatively correlated with self-control; mobile phone addiction was significantly negatively correlated with self-control. The results of the mediation model test showed that: shyness could positively predict the phubbing of college students; mobile phone addiction played a partial mediating role between shyness and phubbing behavior; self-control played a moderating role in the path that shyness affected phubbing through mobile phone addiction. In college students with low self-control level, shyness could positively predict mobile phone addiction, but in college students with high self-control level, shyness had no significant predictive effect on mobile phone addiction. Conclusion Shyness can positively predict college students’ phubbing. To the whole, lower self-control could strengthen the positive effect of shyness on phubbing in collegestudents．
