Problematic Internet and mobile phone use and clinical symptoms in college students: The role of emotional intelligence

News consumption requires motivation. This chapter aims to understand user needs and expectancies as motivational factors behind the consumption of mobile news. The three identified motivations of mobile phone use—sociability, entertainment, and surveillance—reveal the underlying reasoning of Asian college students about the mobile phone as an all-in-one media choice that is essential to socialize, entertain, and stay informed. Moreover, surveillance as a civic motivation is positively related to expectancies of mobile news as being interactive and personally valuable. These motivations sought from mobile phone use and usability attributes of mobile news, both civic and practical, manifest the desire of Asian college students to access news on their phones for intentional and active consumption.

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The Relationship between Personal Resources and Depression in a Sample of Victims of Cyberbullying: Comparison of Groups with and without Symptoms of Depression

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph17249307 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (24) ◽

pp. 9307

Author(s):

Lourdes Rey ◽

Cirenia Quintana-Orts ◽

Sergio Mérida-López ◽

Natalio Extremera

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Emotional Intelligence ◽

Depressive Symptoms ◽

Clinical Symptoms ◽

Personal Resources ◽

Symptoms Of Depression ◽

And Function ◽

The Relationship ◽

Adolescent Victims

Previous research has highlighted the relationship between being cybervictimised and the presence of clinical symptoms, such as depression. To date, however, there has been no comparative analysis of the personal resources profiles of adolescent victims of cyberbullying with and without depressive symptoms. The current study analysed the relationship between positive personal resources and clinical symptoms in 251 adolescent victims of cyberbullying at several Spanish high schools. It examined how several positive personal resources varied in adolescent victims of cyberbullying who displayed symptoms of depression (n = 89) or did not (n = 162). Victims of cyberbullying who displayed depressive symptoms reported lower levels of personal resources (emotional intelligence, gratitude, optimism, and forgiveness) than those who did not. Logistic regression provided evidence that gratitude was the strongest predictor of depressive symptoms in victims of cyberbullying, followed by emotional intelligence and optimism. These findings expand the existing literature on the role of personal resources in mental health and highlight the need for their development in youths to help them cope more effectively and function better after being cyberbullied.

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Parental phubbing and adolescent problematic mobile phone use: The role of parent-child relationship and self-control

Children and Youth Services Review ◽

10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105247 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 116 ◽

pp. 105247 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Gengfeng Niu ◽

Liangshuang Yao ◽

Li Wu ◽

Yuan Tian ◽

Lei Xu ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mobile Phone ◽

Self Control ◽

Parent Child Relationship ◽

Mobile Phone Use ◽

Problematic Mobile Phone Use ◽

Child Relationship ◽

Parent Child

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Autonomy Need Dissatisfaction in Daily Life and Problematic Mobile Phone Use: The Mediating Roles of Boredom Proneness and Mobile Phone Gaming

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph17155305 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (15) ◽

pp. 5305

Author(s):

Wei Hong ◽

Ru-De Liu ◽

Yi Ding ◽

Rui Zhen ◽

Ronghuan Jiang ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mobile Phone ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Psychological Needs ◽

Need Satisfaction ◽

Mobile Phone Use ◽

Targeted Interventions ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Problematic Mobile Phone Use ◽

Boredom Proneness

Psychological needs dissatisfaction has been identified as hindering adaptive development, in which autonomy need dissatisfaction, as one core component, may be associated with adolescents’ maladaptive online behaviors. Sporadic research has examined the association between autonomy need dissatisfaction and problematic mobile phone use (PMPU). Boredom proneness and mobile phone gaming were suggested to be linked to this association. This study aimed to examine the mediating effects of boredom proneness and mobile phone gaming in the association between autonomy need dissatisfaction and PMPU. A total of 358 secondary school students completed questionnaires at three waves; autonomy need dissatisfaction was measured in time 1 (T1); boredom proneness and mobile phone gaming were measured one year later (time 2, T2); PMPU was measured two years later (time 3, T3). The structural equation model results showed that T1 autonomy need dissatisfaction not only directly predicted T3 PMPU, but also exerted effects via the mediating role of T2 boredom proneness and the chain mediating role of T2 boredom proneness and T2 mobile phone gaming. These findings reveal the unique role of specific psychological need in engaging PMPU, which provides support to targeted interventions, such that promoting autonomy need satisfaction may be an instrumental procedure to prevent adolescents from addiction-like online behaviors.

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