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Effect of depression on adolescent mobile phone addiction: mediating role of loneliness |
| WU Qin1, ZHANG Bin2, ZOU Hehui1 |
| 1. Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China; 2. Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha 410208, Hunan Province, China |
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Abstract Objective To explore the mediating role of loneliness in the relationship between depression and adolescent mobile phone addiction. Methods The mobile phone addiction index scale (MPAI), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) loneliness scale, and self-rating depression scale (SDS) were used in a questionnaire survey of 1 707 adolescents (792 junior middle and high school students, 886 college students, and 29 not mentioned grades). Results ① There was no difference in the gender homogenization and grade level of adolescents, mobile phone addiction. Mobile phone addicts scored higher in the out-of-control and avoidance dimensions, and the out-of dimensions were significantly different in gender and age. Abstinence, inefficiency, and evasion dimensions were only significantly different in grade. ② Gender had main effect on escape dimension of mobile phone addiction, while grade had main effect on four dimensions of escape, runaway, abstinence, and inefficiency, and gender and grade had interaction on runaway dimension. ③ Loneliness, depression, and mobile addiction were significantly positively correlated. ④ Loneliness played an intermediary role in the relationship between depression and mobile phone addiction. The mediating effect accounted for 28.7% of the total effect. Conclusion Loneliness and depression are important factors affecting young people,s mobile phone addiction. Teenagers should be given more care and support and the experience of adolescent loneliness and the tendency of depression should be reduced, in order to prevent teenagers from relying on mobile phones to become addicted and endanger their physical and mental health.
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