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| Effects of adult attachment on college students’ mobile phone addiction tendency: mediating role of neurotic personality |
| LIU Huiping1, WANG Hanqing2 |
| 1. Qingdao Huanghai University, Qingdao 266000, Shandong Province, China; 2. Student’s Affairs Office, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, Jiangsu Province, China |
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Abstract Objective To study the influence of adult attachment on mobile phone addiction tendency of college students, and test the mediating role of neurotic personality in the big five personality in the relationship between them. Methods The subjects of this study were 354 college students in Jiangsu Province. The revised adult attachment scale (AAS), Chinese big five personality inventory, brief version（CBF-PI-B）, and the mobile phone addiction tendency scale (MPATS) were used to investigate. The Bootstrap method was used to examine the mediating effect of neurotic personality. Results Both adult attachment style and neurotic personality significantly predicted the tendency of mobile phoneaddiction. Among them, secure attachment significantly negatively predicted mobile phone addiction tendency（F=50.158, P<0.001）, but fearful attachment significantly positively predicted mobile phone addiction tendency（F=21.723, P<0.001）. Neurotic personality significantly positively predicted mobile phone addiction（P<0.001）. Neurotic personality played a partial mediating role in the relationship between secure and fear attachments and mobile phone addiction tendency. Conclusion Secure and fear attachments in college students not only directly affect the tendency of mobile phone addiction, but also indirectly affect the tendency of mobile phone addiction through the mediating effect of neurotic personality in the big five personality.
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