The relationship between college students’ alexithymia and mobile phone addiction: Testing mediation and moderation effects

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Abstract

Background

To explore the relationship between college students’ alexithymia and mobile phone addiction as well as the mediating effects of mental health and the moderating role of being a single child or not.

Methods

A total of 1034 college students from Changchun were assessed with the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20), General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) and Mobile Phone Addiction Index (MPAI).

Results

Alexithymia was positively correlated with mental health and mobile phone addiction. Alexithymia had not only a direct impact on mobile phone addiction but also an indirect impact via mental health. For college students who were not only children, higher levels of alexithymia led to an increase in mobile phone addiction, whereas the influence of alexithymia on mobile phone addiction was much weaker among only children.

Conclusion

Mental health has a partial mediating effect on the relationship between alexithymia and mobile phone addiction, and the relationship was significantly moderated by whether students were only children or not.

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Contributors

Songli Mei: meisongli@sina.com

Gang Xu: m15643182736@163.com

Tingting Gao: gaoting1123@sina.com

Hui Ren: xch.x.2007@163.com

Jingyang Li: lijingyang@126.com

Journal

Journal ID (nlm-ta): BMC Psychiatry

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): BMC Psychiatry

Title: BMC Psychiatry

Publisher: BioMed Central (London )

ISSN (Electronic): 1471-244X

Publication date (Electronic): 11 October 2018

Publication date PMC-release: 11 October 2018

Publication date Collection: 2018

Volume: 18

Electronic Location Identifier: 329

Affiliations

[1 ]ISNI 0000 0004 1760 5735, GRID grid.64924.3d, Department of Social Medicine and Health Management, , School of Public Health, Jilin University, ; NO. 1163 Xinmin Street, Changchun, Jilin Province China

[2 ]GRID grid.430605.4, Department of Mental Health, , The First Hospital of Jilin University, ; NO. 71 Xinmin Street, Changchun, Jilin Province China

Article

Publisher ID: 1891

DOI: 10.1186/s12888-018-1891-8

PMC ID: 6182810

PubMed ID: 30309326

SO-VID: e95cefac-8243-4b61-896e-30e2855fff42

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