ArticlePsychology research and behavior management2023
Problematic Smartphone Use and Social Media Fatigue: The Mediating Role of Self-Control.
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- Smartphone addiction and malevolent creativity-the mediating role of psychological capital and the moderating role of self-concept clarity.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- The impact of table tennis intervention on short video addiction among college students in China: the chained mediation effect of cognitive bias and self-control.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Smartphone addiction and academic procrastination among college students: a serial mediation model of self-control and academic self-efficacy.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Exploring Digital Stress of Finnish Adolescents and Their Parents.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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Abstract
Background: Excessive social media consumption leads to addiction and affects mental health. It is a phenomenon that is difficult to avoid. Previous research on the effects of excessive Internet use shows that people who engage in social media (SM) without restraint experience over-involvement, over-disclosure, technostress, and social media fatigue (SMF). SMF, conceptualized as an emotional and cognitive feeling of being overwhelmed, manifests itself in mindless browsing of content, limiting the amount of time spent on SM, or quitting SM altogether. Self-control, although present in the technology addiction literature and psychology research, has been rarely described in relation to both excessive SM use and SMF. Therefore, the main goal of the present study was to verify whether there is a direct relationship between problematic smartphone use and SMF, and whether this association is mediated by self-control. Methods: The study included 210 respondents ( Results: Statistical analysis was performed to verify the relationship between problematic mobile phone use, level of self-control, and SMF. The outcomes indicate that there are significant interrelationships between the three studied variables. The association between problematic smartphone use and SMF is mediated by self-control. Conclusion: A lack of impulse-inhibition skills, such as compulsive checking of notifications, can be a significant factor in SM exhaustion, fatigue, or frustration. SMF can also be understood as a natural defensive response, triggered in situations where individuals are overwhelmed, when the self-control is insufficient to stop the compulsion to use SM, and the use of a smartphone for this purpose is excessively engaging.
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