Efficacy of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Smartphone Overuse, Functional Impairment, and Mental Health among Undergraduate Students at Risk for Smartphone Addiction and the Mediating Role of Self-Regulation

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-44
Author(s):  
Suea Nam ◽  
Yongrae Cho ◽  
Sangsun Noh
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuxin Gong

BACKGROUND Interaction anxiousness is common among undergraduate students and adolescent, which could easily lead to a high risk for depression, substance use disorder and suicide among them. However, little is known about the influence factors on interaction anxiousness.Responses from 3 universities in Liaoning province indicate that social anxiety scores of college students are generally high. Mental vulnerability and negative life events have a great influence on the occurrence of interaction anxiety. Mental vulnerability played a partial mediating role between negative life events and interaction anxiousness among undergraduate students, which has often been overlooked in the past.The finding suggest that important to expand the construction of college mental health team and change the previous education mode of mental health. Give students regular psychological tests, early detection of psychological problems, and timely intervention. This study has a further understanding about interaction anxiousness and its influencing factors. Adolescents also belong to the community care group, their mental health problems also need more attention from nursing professionals. OBJECTIVE The study aims to analyze the relationships between mental vulnerability, negative life events and interaction anxiousness among undergraduate students in China and examine the mediating role of mental vulnerability on undergraduate students. METHODS Design and Methods: A cross-sectional survey target for undergraduate students in Liaoning province. Pearson correlation coefficient, multiple linear regression and structuralequation modeling method were applied to analyze the data. RESULTS Findings: The results suggest that mental vulnerability played a partial mediating role between negative life events and interaction anxiousness among undergraduate students.Negative life events had a significant indirect effect on the interaction anxiousness through mental vulnerability. CONCLUSIONS The study result will contribute to improve the physical and mental health development of undergraduate students. CLINICALTRIAL No


Author(s):  
Cynthia Elitha ◽  
Debora Eflina Purba

Prior studies have explored the correlation between students’ Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and Entrepreneurial Intention, where several studies found a strong relationship between them, while others suggested moderate even weak correlation on it. This research aims to explore the mediating effect of Entrepreneurship Intentional Self-Regulation (EISR) on the relationship between Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy (ESE) and Entrepreneurial Intention (EI) among undergraduate students in Indonesia. There is a need to explain this concept considering that the emergence of entrepreneurs is one of the government’s priorities in Indonesia. Data were collected from 299 undergraduate students on their final year of studies from eight universities which provide entrepreneurship education in Jakarta and Bandung. Hayes’s PROCESS Macro in SPSS was used to analyse the effect and showed that  Entrepreneurship Intentional Self-Regulation (EISR) was fully mediated the relationship between Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and Entrepreneurial Intention among undergraduate students in Indonesia.


2011 ◽  
Vol 27 (7) ◽  
pp. 1199-1224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne C. Perkins ◽  
Kai S. Cortina ◽  
Joanne P. Smith-Darden ◽  
Sandra A. Graham-Bermann

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oli Ahmed

Better academic performance is associated with adjustment in the educational institution. Newly enrolled students at undergraduate programs face some adjustment related problems (i. e. – loneliness etc.) in the new environment. The present study was aimed to explore the mediating role of Facebook timeline browsing and chatting with friends on Facebook in the relationship between loneliness and mental health among first-year undergraduate students. The study sample comprised of 180 first-year students who were selected purposively from the University of Chittagong. Results suggested significant gender differences in feelings of loneliness, chatting on Facebook, Facebook timeline browsing. Results explored the mediating role of timeline browsing in the relationship between loneliness and mental health, and this relation also moderated by gender. Loneliness, timeline browsing, and gender explained 50% variance of the mental health.


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