Relations between leisure boredom and adolescents’ short-form video use: a moderated mediation model
LUO Guoting1,2, GUO Fei1,2, CHEN Zhiyan1,2, ZHANG Xuehui3
1. CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; 2. Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; 3. Jinhua Binhong Senior High School, Jinhua 321000 , Zhejiang Province, China
Abstract：Objective To explore the mechanism and gender difference underlying the influence of leisure boredom on adolescents’ short-form video use. Methods A total of 889 adolescents aged 15 -20 years were investigated by short-form video App addiction scale, leisure boredom scale, 7 -tiem generalized anxiety disorder scale（GAD-7）, and mobile phone-use motivations scale escape motivation subscale. Results Adolescents’ leisure boredom was significantly positively correlated with their short-form video use. Adolescents’ leisure boredom not only directly affected short-form video use, but also indirectly affected short-form video use through the mediating effects that anxiety and escape motivation played, respectively, as well as the chain mediation of anxiety and escape motivation. The gender moderated the effect of anxiety on short-form video usage, and the anxiety level influenced short-form video use more significantly among male students than female ones. Conclusion Anxiety and avoidance motivation play multiple mediating roles in the effect of leisure boredom on adolescents’ short-form video use, and gender moderates the effect of anxiety on short-form video use.
