Relationships among boredom proneness, sensation seeking and smartphone addiction among Chinese college students: Mediating roles of pastime, flow experience and self-regulation

Wang, Zhengpei; Yang, Xue; Zhang, Xiaolu

doi:10.1016/j.techsoc.2020.101319

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“…The differences of the scores of these latent categories can be found in some empirical researches. On one hand, researchers have confirmed that depression, social anxiety and boredom are major risk factors for smartphone addiction [ 14 , 17 , 21 ], the levels of individuals’ negative emotions are associated with the severities of their smartphone addiction symptoms. On the other hand, studies have also indicated that smartphone addiction can bring about depression and social anxiety [ 55 , 56 ], leisure boredom is considered as a character of one addictive behavior that is related to smartphone addiction [ 57 ].…”

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“…Boredom is an aversive experience of weariness, restlessness and constraint, associated with both monotonous environments and individual characteristics, such as inattention [ 19 ]. Previous studies have confirmed that boredom is positively correlated with smartphone addiction, because people often use smartphones to overcome boredom and achieve physiological arousal or positive internal states, and this will in turn lead to smartphone addiction [ 20 , 21 ].…”

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The relationships between negative emotions and latent classes of smartphone addiction

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The relationships between negative emotions and smartphone addiction has been tested through the literature. However, most of the studies applied variable-centered approaches. The heterogeneity of smartphone addiction severity has not been examined for the associations with negative emotion variables. The purposes of the present study is to explore the latent classes of smartphone addiction and analyze the relationships between depression, social anxiety and boredom and these subgroups. The Smartphone Addiction Scale-Short Version (SAS-SV) and three negative emotion scales were employed to conduct a survey of 539 college students. Mplus8.3 software was applied to perform the latent class analysis (LCA) based on the smartphone addiction symptom ratings. ANOVA and multinomial logistic regression were used to explore the differences among these latent categories and the associations between these subgroups and negative emotion variables. Results demonstrated that Negative emotional variables were significantly correlated with smartphone addiction proneness. Based on their scores on the Smartphone Addiction Scale, smartphone users were divided into three latent classes: low risk class, moderate class and high risk class. Women were more likely to be classified in the high-risk class. The severity of depression and boredom was able to predict the membership of the latent class effectively; while social anxiety failed to do this in the high risk class.

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“…In such a situation, an individual takes full control of his or her actions and feels little distinction between self and environment or between past, present, and future [ 47 , 48 ]. Web-based technologies enable users to experience flow through feelings of temporal dissociation, focused immersion, heightened enjoyment, and curiosity [ 49 , 50 , 51 ]. In particular, the easy-to-use interface and attractive contents of SVAs are highly likely to afford users a flow experience [ 4 , 6 , 7 ] in which they become completely immersed, lose track of time, and feel heightened enjoyment and curiosity.…”

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“…Flow experience is a mental reward received during SVAs usage in which users experience an optimal state of concentration, enjoyment, and transcendence of self [ 48 , 51 ]. Considering that previous research has supported a positive association between flow experience and addiction to the internet or smartphones [ 49 , 59 ], we expect that the positive feelings associated with flow experience could potentially lead to problematic SVAs use. We posit the following hypothesis:…”

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Exploring Stress and Problematic Use of Short-Form Video Applications among Middle-Aged Chinese Adults: The Mediating Roles of Duration of Use and Flow Experience

Huang

Chen

2021

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The pervasiveness of smartphones and the popularity of short-form video applications (SVAs), such as TikTok, among middle-aged Chinese adults have raised concerns about problematic SVAs use. Although a plethora of research has examined problematic smartphone use among teenagers and young adults, scarce attention has been paid to the middle-aged group. This study integrates the psychopathological approach and the compensatory use approach to explicate problematic SVAs use among middle-aged Chinese adults. We aim to examine the relationship between stress and problematic SVAs use via the mediating roles of duration of use and flow experience. A total of 194 middle-aged adults from across the nation participated in an online survey. The results showed that stress was positively associated with problematic SVAs use. We also found that duration of use positively mediated the relationship between stress and problematic SVAs use. Furthermore, a serial mediation effect of duration of use and flow experience was found. The findings suggest that the aforementioned two approaches are complementary to each other in explicating problematic SVAs use, but the compensatory use approach explains more than the psychopathological approach does. Flow experience extends the original compensatory use approach and demonstrates the importance of incorporating techno-psychological predictors in understanding problematic SVAs use.

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“…In this context, the outcome of compulsive and problematic smartphone use becomes highly probable [22,23]. If this happens, it is not uncommon to experience a complete absorption in the activity that is taking place with the smartphone, encountering flow experiences [24,25].…”

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Adolescents Suspended in the Space-Time: Problematic Use of Smartphone between Dissociative Symptoms and Flow Experiences

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Cedro²,

Puccio³

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Based on current digital culture, this chapter aims to provide an updated view of dissociative experiences as no-psychopathological symptoms of flow experiences. It has been hypothesized that prolonged exposures to smartphone screens could be a predictor of altered states of consciousness (flow) and that sometimes these prolonged exposures could degenerate into dissociative phenomena. Participants were 643 high school students aged between 13 and 23 years (M = 16.08; SD = 1.79). They were asked to answer four self-report questionnaires about the habits of smartphone usage, the perception of problematic smartphone use, and the assessment of dissociative symptoms and experiences (e.g., bizarre sensory experiences, absorption and imaginative involvement [AII], depersonalization and derealization). Gender differences emerged both in smartphone usage habits and some dissociative scales. Two gender-specific stepwise linear regressions showed that problematic smartphone use is one of the stronger predictors of dissociative symptoms. Results support the idea that in an adolescents’ community sample prolonged exposition to smartphone screens plays a role in the manifestation of dissociative symptoms. This is closely connected with experiences of AII, which could reinforce the use of devices contributing significantly to establishing a causal circularity between smartphone prolonged usage and AII phenomena.

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Relationships among boredom proneness, sensation seeking and smartphone addiction among Chinese college students: Mediating roles of pastime, flow experience and self-regulation

Cited by 43 publications

References 73 publications

The relationships between negative emotions and latent classes of smartphone addiction

The relationships between negative emotions and latent classes of smartphone addiction

Exploring Stress and Problematic Use of Short-Form Video Applications among Middle-Aged Chinese Adults: The Mediating Roles of Duration of Use and Flow Experience

Adolescents Suspended in the Space-Time: Problematic Use of Smartphone between Dissociative Symptoms and Flow Experiences

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