Natural disasters cause long-term psychological problems and increase substance use in some adults. However, it is unclear whether disasters also lead to these problems in adolescents. We hypothesized the influence of adolescent resilience on mobile phone addiction during the normalization of COVID-19 and flooding. We tested the mediating role of coping style and depression, anxiety, and stress (DASS) on phone addiction among 1,751 adolescents in the Henan Province in China. The adolescents were surveyed via an online questionnaire, and we used structural equation modeling to examine the correlations and moderation effects. The results show that coping style and DASS could mediate the relationship between adolescent resilience and mobile phone addiction among Chinese adolescents. A chain of coping styles and DASS mediated the relationship between adolescent resilience and mobile phone addiction in Chinese adolescents.

Background As mobile phone use grows, so it brings benefits and risks. As an important part of adolescents healthy growth, resilience plays an indispensable role. Thus, it is important to identify when mobile phone use of an adolescent becomes an addiction. This study proposed to explore the effects of adolescent resilience on mobile phone addiction, and tested the mediating role of coping style and depression, anxiety, and stress (DASS) on phone addiction among 2,268 adolescents in the Henan province, China. Methods The adolescents were surveyed via an online questionnaire, a mobile phone addiction index (MPAI), a depression, anxiety, and stress scale with 21 items (DASS-21), the Resilience Scale for Chinese Adolescents (RSCA), and the Simplified coping style questionnaire (SCSQ), and we used structural equation modeling to examine the correlations and moderation effects. All data analyses were performed using SPSS 26.0 and Amos 23.0. Results The results show that adolescences resilience were negatively related to negative coping, DASS, and mobile phone addiction; both coping style and DASS could mediate the relationship between adolescent resilience and mobile phone addiction among Chinese adolescents. The relationship between adolescent resilience and mobile phone addiction in Chinese adolescents was mediated by the chain of coping styles and DASS. Conclusions There is a negative relationship which exists between resilience and mobile phone addiction in this population. In addition, stress, anxiety, depression, and coping style significantly influence the risk of adolescent mobile phone addiction and play an intermediary role in Chinese adolescent resilience and mobile phone addiction.

Background: Work engagement affects nurses’ job performance and the quality of nursing. The question of how to enhance the level of work engagement has received more attention in the health care sector. Psychological flexibility, self-compassion, and emotions may be useful for improving work engagement. The purpose of this study is to analyse the mediating effects of self-compassion and negative emotions between psychological flexibility and work engagement of Chinese nurses during infectious disease pandemics.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with 1,569 Chinese nurses. Structural equation modelling (SEM) was used to determine the mediating effect of self-compassion and negative emotions on the relationship between psychological flexibility and work engagement.Results:Work engagement was inversely connected with psychological flexibility (r = − 0.251, P< 0.001) . Self-compassion and negative emotions played a partially mediating role on the associations of psychological flexibility with work engagement (β1 = − -0.021, β2 = − -0.044).Conclusion: Hospital administrators should develop concrete measures that incorporate negative emotions and self-compassion in interventions targeting psychological flexibility, which may enhance the level of work engagement during infectious disease pandemics.