Self-Consistency Congruence and Smartphone Addiction in Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Subjective Well-Being and the Moderating Role of Gender

Li, Yang; Xl, Ma; Li, Chun; Gu, Chuanhua

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.766392

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“…The results of the meta-analysis showed that SA was highly negatively correlated with subjective well-being, weakly negatively correlated with life satisfaction and positive emotions, and highly positively correlated with negative emotions. It shows that individuals with SA have lower subjective well-being, life satisfaction, and positive emotions, but higher negative emotions, which is consistent with most previous studies (Wang and Zhang, 2015;Yang et al, 2019;Li et al, 2021). This may be because individuals with low subjective well-being received less social support in real life, while the online social support provided by smartphones can compensate for the lack of social support in real life and help them escape the pain of the real world (Gao et al, 2020).…”

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confidence: 92%

Correlations between smartphone addiction and alexithymia, attachment style, and subjective well-being: A meta-analysis

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BackgroundSmartphone addiction (SA) has become a social problem that affects peoples’ quality of life and is frequently reported to be correlated with alexithymia, avoidant or anxious attachment styles, and subjective well-being. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between SA and alexithymia, attachment style, and subjective well-being.MethodsA meta-analysis was conducted following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. The following electronic databases were searched: PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, PsycINFO, PsycArticles, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), WANFANG DATA, and Chongqing VIP Information Co., Ltd. (VIP). Stata 16.0 was used to analyze the overall effect and test the moderating effect.ResultsOne hundred and ten studies were included, involving a total of 96,680 participants. SA had a significantly high positive correlation with alexithymia (r = 0.40), attachment anxiety (r = 0.37), and negative emotions (r = 0.31), and a low positive correlation with attachment avoidance (r = 0.17). In addition, there was a high negative correlation between SA and subjective well-being (r = –0.33) and a low negative correlation between SA, life satisfaction (r = –0.17), and positive emotions (r = –0.18). A moderation analysis revealed that age significantly moderated the relationship between SA and positive emotions. The tools for measuring SA significantly moderated the relationship between SA, alexithymia, attachment anxiety, and subjective well-being. Meanwhile, subjective well-being measurement tools significantly moderated the relationships between SA, subjective well-being, and negative emotions.ConclusionSA was closely related to alexithymia, attachment style, and subjective well-being. In the future, longitudinal research can be conducted to better investigate the dynamic changes in the relationship between them.Systematic review registration[www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/], identifier [CRD42022334798].

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

Correlations between smartphone addiction and alexithymia, attachment style, and subjective well-being: A meta-analysis

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“…A very recent study by Y. Li et al. (2021) suggested that self‐consistency congruence negatively predicts adolescent SPA and hence, gender might modulate the interaction between self‐concordance and well‐being in adolescents. Some of these interactions may be embedded in distinct cultural backgrounds (Ha & Hwang, 2014; Ko et al., 2005; Y. Li et al., 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…(2021) suggested that self‐consistency congruence negatively predicts adolescent SPA and hence, gender might modulate the interaction between self‐concordance and well‐being in adolescents. Some of these interactions may be embedded in distinct cultural backgrounds (Ha & Hwang, 2014; Ko et al., 2005; Y. Li et al., 2021). Very little is known at present whether gender‐related neurodevelopmental trajectories may yield further increased risk for SPA.…”

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confidence: 99%

Cortical surface variation in individuals with excessive smartphone use

Hirjak

Henemann

Schmitgen

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Developmental Neurobiology

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Excessive smartphone use has been repeatedly related to adverse effects on mental health and psychological well‐being in young adults. The continued investigation of the neurobiological mechanism underlying excessive smartphone use—sometimes also referred to as “smartphone addiction”(SPA)—is considered a top priority in system neuroscience research. Despite progress in the past years, cortical morphology associated with SPA is still poorly understood. Here, we used structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at 3 T to investigate two cortical surface markers of distinct neurodevelopmental origin such as the complexity of cortical folding (CCF) and cortical thickness (CTh) in individuals with excessive smartphone use (n = 19) compared to individuals not fulfilling SPA criteria (n‐SPA; n = 22). SPA was assessed using the Smartphone Addiction Inventory (SPAI). CCF and CTh were investigated using the Computational Anatomy Toolbox (CAT12). SPA individuals showed lower CCF in the right superior frontal gyrus as well as in the right caudal (cACC) and rostral anterior cingulate cortex (rACC) compared to n‐SPA individuals (TFCE, uncorrected at p < 0.001). Following a dimensional approach, across the entire sample, CCF of the right cACC was significantly associated with SPAI total score, as well as with distinct SPAI subdimensions, particularly time spent with the device, compulsivity, and sleep interference in all participants (n = 41; p < 0.05, FDR‐corrected). Collectively, these findings suggest that SPA is associated with aberrant structural maturation of regions important for cognitive control and emotional regulation.

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“…Subjective well-being is a psychological state, which is an individual’s satisfaction with his psychological state and the overall assessment of the positive and negative emotions he has experienced ( Li et al, 2021b ). Subjective well-being also reflects their social functioning and adaptation status ( Zhang et al, 2022 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As research has found, subjective well-being hurts adolescents’ Internet addiction behavior. When the happiness of individuals decreases, they will experience strong negative emotions, and their negative emotions can positively predict their smartphone addiction behavior ( Li et al, 2021b ). Research showed that individuals with traditional gender role attitudes are more likely to have greater psychological distress and cause work–family conflict ( Hajar et al, 2010 ; Bornatici and Heers, 2020 ; Hu et al, 2021 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

Gender role attitudes and work–family conflict: A multiple mediating model including moderated mediation analysis

Chen

Zhang

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Front. Psychol.

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With the fierce labor market competition, the family population’s size continues to expand, and the conflict between work and family requirements for individual roles becomes increasingly intense. Most studies focus on work–family conflict as an antecedent variable, and few studies use work–family conflict as an outcome variable. This study aimed to explore the underlying mechanism of the relationship between gender role attitudes and work–family conflict. Two models were tested using conditional process analysis for testing direct and indirect effects on a sample of 324 employees: A serial multiple mediation model, and the multiple mediation model including the moderating role of education level and subjective socioeconomic status. The results suggested that (1) gender role attitudes significantly and positively predicted work–family conflict. (2) Parental sacrifice and subjective well-being played multiple mediating roles between gender role attitudes and work–family conflict. (3) Education level moderated the relationship between gender role attitudes and parental sacrifice, as evidenced by the fact that low education level amplified the positive predictive effect of gender role attitudes on parental sacrifice. (4) Subjective socioeconomic status moderated the relationship between gender role attitudes and subjective well-being, suggesting that high subjective socioeconomic status amplified the negative predictive effect of gender role attitudes on subjective well-being. This work contributes to the understanding of the process underlying the relationship between gender role attitudes and work–family conflict, and to the literature reporting the possible moderated role of education level and subjective socioeconomic status on the influence outcomes of gender role attitudes. Theoretical and practical implications are also discussed.

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Self-Consistency Congruence and Smartphone Addiction in Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Subjective Well-Being and the Moderating Role of Gender

Cited by 10 publications

References 81 publications

Correlations between smartphone addiction and alexithymia, attachment style, and subjective well-being: A meta-analysis

Correlations between smartphone addiction and alexithymia, attachment style, and subjective well-being: A meta-analysis

Cortical surface variation in individuals with excessive smartphone use

Gender role attitudes and work–family conflict: A multiple mediating model including moderated mediation analysis

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