Cellphone addiction during the Covid-19 outbreak: How online social anxiety and cyber danger belief mediate the influence of personality
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The highly contagious Covid-19 virus is spreading around the world, and quarantining at home has become one of the main preventative behaviors, but it has also led to news blackouts, affecting people's normal life and interactions. In order to determine a predictor of cellphone addiction (CPA), the present study, based on the Risk of Information Seeking and Processing (RISP) model, investigated the relationship between personality (Neuroticism and Extraversion) and CPA during the epidemic, mediated by online social anxiety (OSA) and cyber danger belief (CDB). A total of 683 questionnaires were collected through snowball sampling and analyzed by Mplus. Results indicated that neurotic and extroverted individuals developed CPA through different mediating factors. Neuroticism affected CPA through OSA while Extraversion affected CPA through CDB. These findings highlight the importance of different mechanisms of individuals with different personalities. Corresponding cognitive treatments on the perception of social anxiety and cyber danger are recommended on neurotic and extroverted individuals, respectively, in order to reduce their degree of CPA.
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The COVID-19 pandemic increased the frequency and dependence of individuals on smartphones.
“Past findings suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic has increased the frequency and dependence of individuals on smartphones [3,4] which might lead to mobile phone addiction among college students [5].”
From COVID-19 Victimization Experience and College Students’ Mobile Phone Addiction: A Moderated Mediation Effect of Future Anxiety and Mindfulness (2022) · cites this paper as [4]
Online social anxiety significantly and positively predicted mobile phone addiction during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“In addition, online social anxiety was reported to significantly and positively predict mobile phone addiction during the COVID-19 pandemic [4].”
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- Authors
- Zhan, Z., Wei, Q., & Hong, J.-C.
- Affiliations
- South China Normal University (CN)
- National Taiwan Normal University (TW)
- Corresponding author
- Hong, Jon-Chao
- Venue
- Computers in Human Behavior
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2021-08
- Volume
- 121
- Pages
- 106790
- ISSN
- 0747-5632 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC8713358
- OpenAlex
- W3136557456
- Cited by
- 49
- References
- 95
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 6
- FWCI
- 15.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- Locations
- Computers in Human Behavior (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Labour and Social Security Department of Guangdong Province
- Guangdong Province Department of Education
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Keywords
- COVID-19 pandemic, neuroticism, extraversion, personality, mediation, quarantine, information seeking
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