ArticleFrontiers in psychology2022
A Double-Edged Impact of Social Smartphone Use on Smartphone Addiction: A Parallel Mediation Model.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- The Negative Mental Health Consequences of Social Media Use in South Africa: The Role of Smartphone Addiction.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The relationship between shyness and short video addiction among college students: chain mediating role of social support and basic psychological needs.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Personality and Smartphone Addiction in Romania's Digital Age: The Mediating Role of Professional Status and the Moderating Effect of Adaptive Coping.Journal of Intelligence · 2025Article
- The effect of education level on depressive symptoms in Chinese older adults-parallel mediating effects of economic security level and subjective memory ability.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Effects of loneliness on short video addiction among college students: the chain mediating role of social support and physical activity.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Social Aspects of Problematic Smartphone Use: Development and Validation of the PSSNUS and Mental Health Implications for Spanish Youth.Psychology research and behavior management · 2024Article
- The double-edged impact of Internet use on mental health outcomes among Filipino university students: the mediating role of online social support.Frontiers in sociology · 2023Article
- Influences of Playfulness on Smartphone Dependency among Upper Grades of Korean Elementary Schoolers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
Evidence supports predictive roles of non-social smartphone use for smartphone addiction, but the relationship of social smartphone use and smartphone addiction is unclear. This study explored whether social smartphone use has a double-edged impact on smartphone addiction. Using data from a sample of 909 Chinese undergraduates, we tested a parallel mediation model that considered online social support and realistic social support as mediators. As predicted, social smartphone use weakened smartphone addiction through realistic social support and contributed to smartphone addiction through online social support. Moreover, we tested the moderating role of agreeableness in the mediation path of online social support. Agreeableness only moderated the indirect effects. Specifically, the predictive effects of online social support on smartphone addiction was greater for lower rather than higher agreeableness. The results suggest that social needs play an important role in the formation of smartphone addiction. Several limitations and implications are also discussed herein.
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