ArticleScientific reports2024
Intolerance of uncertainty and internet addiction among college students in China post-pandemic era: the mediating role of future anxiety.
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- The role of anxiety factors in predicting smartphone addiction mediated by metacognition among university students: a two-stage SEM-ANN approach.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Smartphone addiction and sleep quality in the physical activity-anxiety link: a mediation-moderation model.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Future anxiety, depression and stress among undergraduate students: psychological flexibility and emotion regulation as mediators.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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Due to the repeated changes in the COVID-19 pandemic, we live in an era of various uncertainties that raise future anxiety and behavioral addiction problems. According to the Protection Motivation Theory (PMT), the present study attempted to explore the impact of COVID-19 intolerance of uncertainty (COVID-19 IU) on internet addiction (IA) among college students and the mediating role of future anxiety (FA) by constructing a mediating model. A questionnaire survey was conducted on 679 Chinese college students and PROCESS 3.5 was utilized to test the hypotheses. The results indicated that the COVID-19 IU was significantly positively correlated with IA and FA, and FA was significantly positively correlated with IA. COVID-19 IU had a significant positive predictive effect on IA; FA played a complementary partial mediating role between COVID-19 IU and IA. The results supported the PMT, which not only enriched our understanding of FA under uncertain life circumstances, but also deepened our understanding of the potential mechanisms of the effects of IA. Finally, discussions and suggestions were presented based on the results.
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