ArticlePsychology research and behavior management2021
Why are Individuals with Alexithymia Symptoms More Likely to Have Mobile Phone Addiction? The Multiple Mediating Roles of Social Interaction Anxiousness and Boredom Proneness.
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- Correlations between smartphone addiction and alexithymia, attachment style, and subjective well-being: A meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Pooled it
- Reward Deficits in Co-Occurring Social Anxiety and Depression: The Roles of Anhedonia, Boredom, Loneliness, and COVID-19 Social Restriction.Journal of clinical psychology · 2026Article
- The impact of loneliness on alexithymia among Chinese adolescents: the mediating role of problematic smartphone use and the moderating effect of fear of negative evaluation.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Connected by Boredom: A Systematic Review of the Role of Trait Boredom in Problematic Technology Use.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Exploring the relationship between physical activity and social media addiction among adolescents through a moderated mediation model.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Social network site addiction, sleep quality, depression and adolescent difficulty describing feelings: a moderated mediation model.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Mobile Phone Addiction, Interaction Anxiousness, and Eating Behavior in Nursing Students: A Moderation Analysis.Journal of nursing management · 2025Article
- The effect of grandparental care on social networking sites addiction in college: mediated by social anxiety and loneliness.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- The relationship between childhood psychological abuse and depression in college students: internet addiction as mediator, different dimensions of alexithymia as moderator.BMC public health · 2024Article
- The relationship between childhood psychological abuse and depression in college students: a moderated mediation model.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Unveiling the grip of mobile phone addiction: an in-depth review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Review
- Effects of use motivations and alexithymia on smartphone addiction: mediating role of insecure attachment.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Problematic smartphone use and specific problematic Internet uses among university students and associated predictive factors: a systematic review.Education and information technologies · 2023Article
- Role of Alexithymia in Predicting Internet Novel Addiction through Boredom Proneness.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
purposePrevious studies have investigated the relationship between alexithymia and problematic mobile phone use (PMPU). However, yet gaps in identifying the internal mechanisms of this relationship remain. Hence, based on the Interaction of Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution model, the current research examined the mediating roles of college students' social interaction anxiousness (SIA) and boredom proneness (BPS) in the relationship between alexithymia and PMPU.
methodsA total of 1300 college students (
resultsThe results of multiple mediation analysis showed that (1) alexithymia was positively linked with PMPU; (2) both SIA and BPS mediated the link between alexithymia and PMPU; and (3) a serial indirect pathway emerged (ie, alexithymia → SIA → BPS → PMPU).
conclusionThese findings indicated that alexithymia could influence PMPU in a simple indirect way (parallel mediation) and in a complex indirect way (serial mediation). Besides, these findings provide some insights into the prevention and intervention of PMPU.
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