ArticleJournal of behavioral addictions2019
The relationship between perceived stress and problematic social networking site use among Chinese college students.
Article in Journal of behavioral addictions, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
32 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The Relationship Between Social Media Addiction, Depression, Stress, and Anxiety: A Meta-Analysis.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026Pooled it
- Association between problematic social networking use and anxiety symptoms: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC psychology · 2024Pooled it
- A systematic review of metacognitions in Internet Gaming Disorder and problematic Internet, smartphone and social networking sites use.Clinical psychology & psychotherapy · 2021Pooled it
- Social Networks Use Disorder and Associations With Depression and Anxiety Symptoms: A Systematic Review of Recent Research in China.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Pooled it
- Relationships Between Psychological Resilience, Rejection Sensitivity, and Short-Video Addiction in University Students: A Cross-Lagged Analysis.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Phenotypes associated with problematic online gaming and gambling: A clustering approach among young adults.Addictive behaviors reports · 2026Article
- A Stress-Induced Digital Escapism Framework for Understanding the Link Between Stress and Problematic Social Media Use.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Unpacking the indirect association between problematic short-form video use and appearance anxiety.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Physical activity and social media addiction: a multi-mediation analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Article
- Article
- Article
- Coping Tendency as a Mediator in the Relationship Between Psychological Resilience and Health Problems Among College Students.Psychology research and behavior management · 2024Article
- Network modeling of problematic social media use components in college student social media users.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Acute Stress Disorders Among Jordanian Adolescents After Watching Gaza News Footage on Social Media.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2024Article
- The Relationship between Stress Perception and Problematic Social Network Use among Chinese College Students: The Mediating Role of the Fear of Missing Out.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Psychometric properties of the Problematic Use of Social Networks (PUS) scale in Arabic among adolescents.PloS one · 2023Article
- Problematic smartphone use and specific problematic Internet uses among university students and associated predictive factors: a systematic review.Education and information technologies · 2023Article
- Perceived stress and psychological disorders in healthcare professionals: a multiple chain mediating model of effort-reward imbalance and resilience.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Examining the Association Between Boredom Proneness and Bedtime Procrastination Among Chinese College Students: A Sequential Mediation Model with Mobile Phone Addiction and Negative Emotions.Psychology research and behavior management · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
aimsPerceived stress has been regarded as a risk factor for problematic social networking site (SNS) use, yet little is known about the underlying processes whereby confounding variables may mediate or moderate this relationship. To answer this question, this study examined whether depression and anxiety mediated the relationship between perceived stress and problematic SNS use, and whether these mediating processes were moderated by psychological resilience and social support.
methodsParticipants were 641 Chinese college students who completed anonymous questionnaires measuring perceived stress, depression/anxiety, psychological resilience, social support, and problematic SNS use.
resultsThe results showed that (a) depression/anxiety mediated the relationship between perceived stress and problematic SNS use; (b) the mediating effects of depression/anxiety on the association between perceived stress and problematic SNS use were moderated by psychological resilience. Specifically, the mediating effects of depression/anxiety were stronger for individuals with lower levels of psychological resilience, compared with those with higher levels of psychological resilience; and (c) the mediating effects of depression/anxiety were not moderated by social support, although social support was negatively related to depression/anxiety. DISCUSSION AND
conclusionThis study can contribute to a better understanding of how and when perceived stress increases the risk of problematic SNS use, and implies the importance of enhancing psychological resilience in preventing problematic SNS use.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.