Relationship between Difficulty in Emotion Regulation and Internet Addiction in College Students: A One-Year Prospective Study

Tsai, Jui-Kang; Lu, Wei-Hsin; Hsiao, Ray C.; Hu, Huei-Fan; Yen, Cheng‐Fang

doi:10.3390/ijerph17134766

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“…Cognitive factors may be key factors in internet addiction. Some studies have supported the notion that the ability to regulate emotions may predict internet addiction, and therefore producing changes in cognition may be an effective intervention method (21,22). Cognitive reappraisal, as an adaptive strategy, is defined as cognitively transforming a situation in order to modify its impact on one's emotions (23).…”

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The Mediating Roles of Emotional Regulation on Negative Emotion and Internet Addiction Among Chinese Adolescents From a Development Perspective

Liang

Zhu

Dai³

et al. 2021

Front. Psychiatry

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Previous researches indicated that emotional regulation can be associated with depression and anxiety, which may be an important mediating factor between emotional regulation and internet addiction. However, the mechanism between these associations has received little attention and it is still unclear. This study has examined 716 Chinese adolescents, 341 were males (47.6%), aged 13 to 18(Mean = 14.58, SD = 1.50), using a cross-sectional survey involving Young's Diagnostic Questionnaire for Internet Addiction, the nine-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), the seven-item Generalized Anxiety (GAD-7) scale, and the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ). Correlation analysis, multiple-group analysis and structural equation modeling were carried out in SPSS Statistics version 23 (IBM, Armonk, NY) and AMOS version 21. Cognitive reappraisal had a significantly negative direct effect on Internet addiction (β = −0.118, p < 0.05). Furthermore, negative emotions mediated the relationships between expression suppression and Internet addiction [β = 0.149, 95% CI = (0.099, 0.212)] and the relationship between cognitive reappraisal and Internet addiction [β = −0.101, 95% CI = (−0.147, −0.065)]. The differences in the structure path coefficients for different development stages demonstrated that recognitive reappraisal showed more protective roles for negative emotion (p < 0.01), and negative emotion also predict Internet addiction more effectively in high school students (p < 0.001). However, cognitive reappraisal directly predicted negative Internet addiction in junior high school students. Therefore, the intervention on adolescents for internet addiction should not only focus on emotional regulation and negative emotion, but also development stages of adolescents.

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Section: The Mediating Role Of Expressive Suppression and Cognitive Reappraisalmentioning

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The Mediating Roles of Emotional Regulation on Negative Emotion and Internet Addiction Among Chinese Adolescents From a Development Perspective

Liang

Zhu

Dai³

et al. 2021

Front. Psychiatry

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“…The problems studied are more specific IA problems rather than generalised IA (23% of the papers), which is a new trend on the field, and it is conversely opposite to the first two decades of research, in which IA was more prevalent than specific Internet use-related addiction problems. In order of frequency, in this second Special Issue, which was open to research on all addictive Internet and mobile phone use, the most prevalent problems ordered by frequency were: PMPU (38% [ 27 ]), IA (26% [ 16 ]), GD (23% [ 19 ]), SMA (18% [ 26 ]), OG (8% [ 39 ]), PUP (5% [ 37 ]), and PIS (3% [ 23 ]). This means the tendency before COVID-19 in the field was to study addictive problems related to the use of mobile technologies (e.g., PSU) and its risks, and this has increased during the pandemic [ 50 ].…”

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Emerging Health and Education Issues Related to Internet Technologies and Addictive Problems

Lopez-Fernandez

2021

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This timely editorial paper outlines some of the main emerging research on technological topics on health and education approaches to Internet use-related problems before and during the beginning of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Background: The aim is to provide a brief overview to facilitate a rapid comprehensive and practical approach to these new trends to promote research, interventions, education, and prevention. Methods: The rapid review includes an analysis of both health and education technologies studies on Internet use-related addiction problems included in the Special Issue “Internet and Smartphone Use-Related Addiction Health Problems: Treatment, Education and Research” to extract recent findings and a few reflections about the development of the field before and during the first wave of the COVID-19. Results: Main findings highlighted studies which tended to be empirical, with a relational type associating specific addictive problems with individual and a few contextual factors in adult populations. Psychometric studies about scales are prevalent, but predictive and mixed methods ones are starting to emerge, together with reviews about conceptualisation, measure, treatment, and prevention. Conclusions: From the arrival of Internet, our societies have converged in a global culture which has impacted health and educational domains. Internet use-related addiction problems have globally emerged and common knowledge, advances, and strategies exist to overcome challenges which are starting to be tested, and prevention interest has arisen in a pandemic situation with global health problems holistically tackled.

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“…85 Our observation of lower FAA and less use of reappraisal in IA in this study could support the idea that IA is a disorder related to poor cognitive control. 86,87 There were several limitations deserving acknowledgment. Firstly, although the emotion regulation choice task has been validated in previous studies, 24,36 the either-or choice between distraction and reappraisal in our experimental design determined that participants' more choice of distraction depended on less choice of reappraisal.…”

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Emotion Regulation Choice in Internet Addiction: Less Reappraisal, Lower Frontal Alpha Asymmetry

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Individuals with internet addiction (IA) show difficulties in emotion regulation. However, they could effectively employ emotion regulation strategies when instructed. We speculate that this discrepancy might be caused by maladaptive emotion regulation choices. Recent studies indicated that decreased activity of the left frontal cortex could be a neural marker of reappraisal use. To address this problem, individuals with IA ( n = 17, IA group) and healthy individuals ( n = 23, healthy control [HC] group) were required to choose an emotion regulation strategy between reappraisal and distraction to regulate their emotions varying in emotional intensity and valence. We also compared the resting state frontal alpha asymmetry (FAA) of these 2 groups. The results replicated more choices of reappraisal in low- versus high-intensity emotional contexts across groups. More importantly, the IA group chose reappraisal less frequently compared with the HC group, irrespective of emotional intensity. Furthermore, we found individuals with IA have lower FAA than healthy controls, and FAA shows a positive correlation with the use of reappraisal. These findings suggest that IA alters individuals’ patterns of emotion regulation choice and impairs frontal activities, causing difficulties in emotion regulation.

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Relationship between Difficulty in Emotion Regulation and Internet Addiction in College Students: A One-Year Prospective Study

Cited by 29 publications

References 49 publications

The Mediating Roles of Emotional Regulation on Negative Emotion and Internet Addiction Among Chinese Adolescents From a Development Perspective

The Mediating Roles of Emotional Regulation on Negative Emotion and Internet Addiction Among Chinese Adolescents From a Development Perspective

Emerging Health and Education Issues Related to Internet Technologies and Addictive Problems

Emotion Regulation Choice in Internet Addiction: Less Reappraisal, Lower Frontal Alpha Asymmetry

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