The Relationship between Social Anxiety, Smartphone Use, Dispositional Trust, and Problematic Smartphone Use: A Moderated Mediation Model
Annoni AM, Petrocchi S, Camerini AL, Marciano L
International journal of environmental research and public health · 30 citas
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- Marcadores de salud y funcionamiento
Quién lo pagó
- Financiación
- Financiación independiente
- Gobierno
- National Science Foundation
- Gobierno
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
- Gobierno
- Swiss National Science Foundation
- Subvenciones
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (183199)
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Publicación
- Publicado
- 2021-03-02 · Int J Environ Res Public Health · vol. 18 · número 5 · pág. 2452
- Editorial
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
- Citado
- 76 citas · más que el 99% de estudios similares · 19.0× el promedio de su campo
- Impacto
- Entre el 10 % más citado de su campo
- Referencias
- 115 trabajos
- Acceso
- Acceso abierto (revista) · CC-BY
- Áreas de investigación
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Child Development and Digital Technology · Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
- Palabras clave
- smartphone addiction, social anxiety, dispositional trust, smartphone use duration, moderated mediation, online relationships
- MeSH
- humans, behavior, addictive, anxiety, fear, trust, adult, female, male, young adult, smartphone
4 autores
- Anna Maria Annoni🇨🇭 · autor de correspondenciaUniversity of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland; Università della Svizzera italiana
- Serena Petrocchi🇨🇭Università della Svizzera italiana
- Anne-Linda Camerini🇨🇭Università della Svizzera italiana
- Laura Marciano🇨🇭Università della Svizzera italiana
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Background
The pervasiveness of smartphones has raised concerns about an increase in the prevalence of problematic smartphone use (PSU), which depends on a set of psychological and behavioral risk factors. Previous research has yielded mixed results on factors predicting PSU, including social anxiety and trust. In particular, the role of trust remained largely unexplored. In the present study, we aimed to investigate the relationship between social anxiety and PSU, via the mediating role of time spent on the phone, and to explore the moderating role of dispositional trust toward others, by using a moderated mediation model with PSU as the outcome.
Methods
A total of 240 young adults (Mage = 23.33, SD = 3.90, 50% male) answered an online questionnaire, which included the 12-item Social Anxiety Scale, a question on the daily duration of smartphone use, a single-item measure of dispositional trust, and the 10-item Smartphone Addiction Scale Short Version. Gender and occupational status were included as covariates.
Results
Social anxiety was significantly and positively related to PSU; however, smartphone use did not mediate this relationship. Although the relationship between smartphone use and PSU was significant and positive, the link between social anxiety and smartphone use was not. Dispositional trust moderated and strengthened the direct relationships between social anxiety and PSU as well as smartphone use and PSU.
Conclusions
Heavy smartphone users as well as socially anxious individuals, with the tendency of trusting others, are more at risk of PSU, which can be explained by their preference and search for online connections.
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