ArticleFrontiers in public health2026
Problematic social media use and negative risk-taking behavior among college students: the chain mediating role of grit and academic procrastination.
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Background: Social media has greatly facilitated college students' daily lives, yet the academic problems and negative behaviors caused by problematic social media use are becoming increasingly prominent. Based on the self-regulation theory, this study examined the association between problematic social media use and negative risk-taking behavior in college students, and explored the potential roles of grit and academic procrastination in this linkage. Method: A total of 754 Chinese college students were measured by the convenience sampling method, and the data were analyzed via SPSS 27.0. Result: Research showed that college students' problematic social media use was significantly negatively correlated with grit, and significantly positively correlated with academic procrastination and negative risk-taking behaviors. Academic procrastination acted as an independent mediator between problematic social media use and negative risk-taking behaviors, while grit acted as an independent mediator between problematic social media use and academic procrastination. Grit and academic procrastination played a chain mediation role between problematic social media use and negative risk-taking behaviors. Conclusion: This study reveals a positive correlation between problematic social media use and negative risk-taking behavior, as well as the potential roles of grit and academic procrastination in this relationship. Public health interventions should focus on the association between problematic social media use and risk-taking behaviors among college students, with particular attention to psychological and behavioral indicators such as grit and academic procrastination, thereby providing theoretical references for academic guidance and risk-taking behavior prevention.
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