ArticleFrontiers in psychology2026
Negative life events and mobile phone addiction among Chinese vocational college students: a chain-mediation model of perceived stress and psychological resilience.
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Background: Mobile phone addiction not only poses potential adverse effects on the effective implementation of educational and teaching activities, but also exerts a detrimental influence on students' mental health. Negative life events have been identified as a significant contributing factor to mobile phone addiction among vocational college students. Although prior research has investigated the relationship between life events and problematic mobile phone use, this study represents the first comprehensive examination of the sequential mediating roles of perceived stress and psychological resilience in the association between negative life events and mobile phone addiction. This investigation not only extends the application of stress-coping theory within the domain of digital behavior addiction, but also offers novel empirical insights and potential intervention strategies for understanding the psychological vulnerability and adaptive mechanisms involved in the development of mobile phone addiction among vocational college students. Objective: The present study investigates the relationship between perceived stress and psychological resilience in the context of negative life events and mobile phone addiction, as well as the underlying mechanisms that mediate this association. Methods: Data collection was carried out among 587 vocational college students in Nanchang City, Jiujiang City, and Fuzhou City of Jiangxi Province, using the Self-Rated Life Events Scale for Adolescents, the Perceived Stress Scale, the Psychological Resilience Scale, and the Mobile Phone Addiction Questionnaire. Results: The findings are: (1) Mobile phone addiction is widespread among vocational college students, and the level of mobile phone addiction does not show significant differences in factors such as gender and place of origin. (2) Negative life events among vocational college students are positively associated with mobile phone addiction. (3) Perceived stress and psychological resilience play an independent mediating role and a chain mediating role between negative life events experienced by vocational college students and mobile phone addiction behaviors. The mediating effect includes three paths: negative life events → perceived stress → mobile phone addiction (effect size: 0.200), negative life events → psychological resilience → mobile phone addiction (effect size: 0.047), and negative life events → perceived stress → psychological resilience → mobile phone addiction (effect size: 0.024). Conclusion: This study highlights that negative life events are directly associated with mobile phone addiction among vocational college students, and also are indirectly associated with the degree of mobile phone addiction among vocational college students through the mediating effects of perceived stress and psychological resilience. The research results provide an important theoretical basis for higher vocational colleges to deeply understand the psychological causes of students' mobile phone addiction, which is conducive to optimizing the content of mental health education in schools and strengthening stress management training and psychological resilience cultivation in a targeted manner. It provides scientific support for educators to design stratified intervention plans and prevent problematic mobile phone usage behaviors, and also offers a powerful practical reference for promoting the formulation of digital health promotion policies for vocational college students and creating a positive and healthy campus network environment.
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